Strapi

Manage store content and APIs with Strapi

Medusa Strapi Plugin

Setting up your store

Initialize a Copy to clipboardmedusa project by using a starter

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yarn create medusa-app
        OR
npx create-medusa-app

Choose Copy to clipboardmedusa-starter-default

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? Which Medusa starter would you like to install? …
❯ medusa-starter-default
  medusa-starter-contentful
  Other

Pick any storefront starter

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Which storefront starter would you like to install? …
❯ Gatsby Starter
Next.js Starter
None

Make sure Copy to clipboardredis is installed and running

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$ redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379> ping
PONG

Go to backend directory.

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cd <Your project name>/backend

Make sure your packages version in Copy to clipboardpackage.json match this -

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  "@medusajs/medusa": "^1.1.49",
  "@medusajs/medusa-cli": "^1.1.22",
  "medusa-fulfillment-manual": "^1.1.26",
  "medusa-interfaces": "^1.1.27",
  "medusa-payment-manual": "^1.0.8",
  "medusa-payment-stripe": "^1.1.30",
  "mongoose": "^5.13.3",
  "typeorm": "^0.2.36"

Edit Copy to clipboardmedusa-config.js. Navigate to the end of file and make sure this line is not commented out -

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redis_url: REDIS_URL,

In the same file, add this object to plugins array -

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{
  resolve: `medusa-plugin-strapi`,
  options: {
  strapi_medusa_user: 'medusa_user',
  strapi_medusa_password: 'medusaPassword1',
  strapi_url: '127.0.0.1',
  strapi_port: '1337'
  }
}

Create and navigate to Copy to clipboardplugins directory and pull Copy to clipboardmedusa-plugin-strapi

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cd plugins
git clone https://github.com/Deathwish98/medusa-plugin-strapi.git

Install dependencies and build project files

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cd medusa-plugin-strapi
npm install
npm run build

Start medusa server from Copy to clipboardbackend directory

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cd ../../
npm run seed
npm run start

Your local Medusa server should now be running on port 9000.

Setting up strapi

This plugin assumes that you are familiar with strapi. If you have not used it before, visit the official docs for more info -

https://strapi.io/documentation/developer-docs/latest/getting-started/quick-start.html

Create a new strapi project using our template.

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npx create-strapi-app@3.6.8 strapi-medusa --template https://github.com/Deathwish98/strapi-medusa-template.git

OR

yarn create strapi-app strapi-medusa --template https://github.com/Deathwish98/strapi-medusa-template.git

Start strapi server. NOTE: If you are using Copy to clipboardSQLite there is a known Copy to clipboardknex.js bug - It appears after running Copy to clipboardnpm run develop for the first time . Just run the command again and it should disappear.

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npm run develop <---- For development purposes

OR 

npm run start

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error KnexTimeoutError: Knex: Timeout acquiring a connection. The pool is probably full. Are you missing a .transacting(trx) call?

Visit docs.medusa-commerce.com for further guides.

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