PinStripe is a “small development kit” for Elixir and Stripe based off of @wojtekmach’s article SDKs with Req: Stripe on the Dashbit blog.

That blog post is great for more senior programmers and people who have time to roll their own integration. But what about those who just want to say “boom, Stripe”?

It would be great if Stripe provided an official Elixir SDK, but they don’t. The community project Stripity Stripe attempts to fill that gap. It has worked great for many people for a long time, but since the Stripe API is so sprawling it’s been cumbersome for maintainers and new code hasn’t been merged in over a year. This can give newcomers pause.

PinStripe aspires to find a middle ground by providing a maintainable, minimalistic interface with a few conveniences that should cover 95% of use cases without needing to meticulously cover the entire Stripe SDK.

Features include:

• Simple API Client built on Req with automatic ID prefix recognition
• Webhook Handler DSL using Spark for clean, declarative webhook handling
• Automatic Signature Verification for webhook security
• Code Generators powered by Igniter for zero-config setup
• Sync with Stripe to keep your local handlers in sync with your Stripe dashboard

Please note this library is still experimental! Tests are passing, igniter installation and mix tasks all seem to work! But community feedback and contributions are very welcome.

Kudos to @lawik for help with the name!