In this episode, we're starting to set up the Stripe card form for our site, getting ready to accept payments. We kick things off by heading over to the Stripe documentation and grabbing the JavaScript snippet for Stripe.js. This script is essential for security and has to be included on all pages, just like Stripe recommends.
After adding the Stripe script, we move on to building our payment form using Alpine.js. We initialize Alpine on the form and create an init
method, letting us set up everything we need as soon as the form loads. Inside this, we create a Stripe instance using our publishable key (sourced from our config), and then set up the Stripe Elements API to create the actual card input field.
We add a div to the form for the Stripe card element and mount the card field on the page so it's ready for users to type in their card details. Finally, we hook the form submission up to an Alpine method, making sure we prevent the default submission so we can later handle everything via Livewire. For now, submitting the form just logs to the console, but this sets us up nicely for integrating the payment process in the next steps.