First look at medusa-extender

Looking to get into development? As a full-stack developer I guide you on this journey and give you bite sized tips every single day 👊

Installing medusa-extender

If you are following along, please ensure you have the medusa server setup.

From there, open your terminal, navigate to the project root, and run the following command.

npm i medusa-extender

From there, we can run the init function, which does all the heavy lifting.

./node_modules/.bin/medex init

This command will ensure all our packages are there. We are running the project in TypeScript mode and changing our package commands.

You'll also note a new modules folder is created in your src directory. This contains some examples of a module/router and service.

By inspecting these files, we quickly learn that there are many cool things we can use out of the box. For example, the router has a requiredAuth function built in.

We can quickly spool up our server in dev mode: npm start and check out this new route. (localhost:9000/admin/custom-route)

You can try and change the auth required to see the change from it being required, yes or no.

What can medusa-extender create?

Let's look at all the things medusa-extender can help us with.

Entity: Create a new entity representing a custom database row. We can even override existing ones

Repository: A whole repo to interact with custom entities

Migration: A migration file for managing our database

Service: To more easily create services, and we can even overwrite existing services

Middleware: With this, we can create custom middleware as, for example the logged-in user check

Router: Create custom routes quickly

Validator: A custom field validator, which is super handy for re-usable checks

Subscriber: Create a custom subscriber, but more easily with some more formatting

Module: A custom module that can incorporate multiple modules and components into one place.

In the coming articles, we'll look closely at some of these and how they will work.

Thank you for reading, and let's connect!

Thank you for reading my blog. Feel free to subscribe to my email newsletter and connect on Facebook or Twitter

First look at medusa-extender

Comments

More from this blog

I wrote 1000 articles, what’s next?

Vendure community and more

Deploying Vendure

Vendure - Overwriting email templates

Customizing vendure

Installing medusa-extender

What can medusa-extender create?

Thank you for reading, and let's connect!

Command Palette

Comments

More from this blog

Installing medusa-extender

What can medusa-extender create?

Thank you for reading, and let's connect!