SDK Based Integration Boilerplate for Alokai

Creating a new integration?

The fastest way to get started is to use our CLI to generate a new integration boilerplate

 npx @vue-storefront/cli create integration

The CLI will ask you a few questions and generate a new integration boilerplate based on your answers.

For more information about creating a custom integration using the Alokai SDK, please visit the documentation.

From the project root, you can run the one of following commands, depending on your package manager:

yarn dev

or

npm run dev 

This will do the following:

• start the development server for the playground/app application.
• start the middleware server for the playground/middleware application.

Adding an endpoint

npx @vue-storefront/cli  add endpoint getSomething

This will do the following:

• add a new endpoint to the api-client package
• add a new method to the sdk package
• add a new route to the playground/middleware application
• add a new route to the playground/app application

Using vs Contributing

Using the CLI is the recommended way to create a new integration boilerplate. However, if you're planning to contribute, you can follow the steps below.

Would you like to contribute?

This is an open-source project. Feel free to contribute by creating a new issue or submitting a pull request. We highly recommend opening an issue and getting feedback before submitting a pull request, to avoid unnecessary work.

If we feel your contribution would benefit the community, and it adheres to our standards, we would be delighted to accept your pull requests.

For internal use only. All changes are recorded in the CHANGELOG.md file.

This is a new integration boilerplate for Alokai integrations based on the SDK.

Requirements:

• NodeJS v16 or later,
• Yarn.

Consuming Project Requirements

If you would like to use an interation based on this boilerplate in a project, the project must meet these requirements.

Minimum Versions

• "@vue-storefront/middleware": "^@3.9.0"
• "@vue-storefront/sdk": "@1.4.0"
• "@vue-storefront/next": "@1.1.0" || "@vue-storefront/nuxt": "3.1.0"

You may need to add resolutions for @vue-storefront/sdk in frontend package.json if your project requires different sdk versions in addition to the version required here.

If your project needs to be upgraded you can check out the Migration Guide

Repository structure

This repository contains a few necessary packages to help you get started building your new integration:

• playground/app - (created during CLI initialization) Demonstrates the usage of api-client by creating an express server app. You can use this directory to demonstrate the usage of the integration.
• playground/middleware - An express app that uses the api-client to create a server-to-server connection with service providers (e.g. commerce backend).
• packages/api-client - The service the middleware uses. It contains an exampleEndpoint that can be used as an example for the other API endpoints,
• packages/sdk- Think of the SDK Connector as a communication layer between the storefront and the middleware. It contains an exampleMethod with example documentation, unit & integration tests, that can be used as an example for the rest SDK connector methods.
• docs - VuePress documentation with configured API extractor, to create an API Reference based on the api-client and sdk methods & interfaces.

Getting started

yarn

5. Build the packages,

yarn build

6. Test the packages,

yarn test

7. That's it. Now you can start the developing your contribution,
8. Enjoy.