Medusa Strapi Plugin

Setting up your store

• Initialize a

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  medusa

  project by using a starter
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  yarn create medusa-app
          OR
  npx create-medusa-app

• Choose

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  medusa-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

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  redis

  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

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  package.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

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  medusa-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

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  plugins

  directory and pull

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  medusa-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

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  backend

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

Setting up strapi

• 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.
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  npm run develop <---- For development purposes
  
  OR 
  
  npm run start

  NOTE: If you are using

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  SQLite

  there is a known

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  knex.js

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

  It appears after running

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  npm run develop

  for the first time . Just run the command again and it should disappear.