I was surprised to hear there was no database needed! How does that work? I guess you can cache most of the requests to stripe? What kind of data can you store on stripe?
We use Stripe’s "Product Catalogue", a relatively old but, to our surprise, somewhat lesser-known feature. By leveraging metadata, you can represent most e-commerce concepts, and we’re actively working on expanding those capabilities even further, beyond products and orders.
And yes, caching is the key ingredient in YNS. The combination of RSC and Next.js Cache works really well - different React.js components can independtly fetch remote data and Next.js gives you great flexibility in managing that.
This strikes me as smart. I'm building something similar based on pocketbase, which I really like, but I dislike the complexity in general. I wasn't smart/brave enough to go down the metadata rabbit hole despite knowing it was a possibility, but I'm half-regretting it now. It's awesome to have a fully static store with no database to worry about.
I was surprised to hear there was no database needed! How does that work? I guess you can cache most of the requests to stripe? What kind of data can you store on stripe?