VGS Plugin for Netlify

This plugin streamlines your integration with VGS and Netlify by auto-configuring your VGS vault with the settings required to work with both systems.

Example project

Prerequisites

Overview

In this guide, we cover:

How to install and use vgs-netlify-plugin
How to set up a local development environment and work with netlify/VGS collect

Implementation Instructions

Configure Netlify

First, create a folder and initialize netlify site by running:

netlify init

Then, get clientId and clientSecret credentials by following this guide. Now, get the ID of your vault or vaultId, you can find it in the VGS Vault Dashboard

Finally, let's create environment variables on the Netlify side, so they will be available during each build

netlify env:set VGS_CLIENT_ID <clientId>
netlify env:set VGS_CLIENT_SECRET <clientSecret>
netlify env:set VGS_VAULT_ID <vaultId>

Configure your website

Create a simple src/index.html file with a form:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>VGS <-> Netlify Plugin demo</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
  <form id="vgs-collect-form">
    <label>Email</label>
    <div id="email" class="form-field"></div>
    <label>Password</label>
    <div id="password" class="form-field"></div>
    <button type="submit">Log in</button>
  </form>
  <script src="https://js.verygoodvault.com/vgs-collect/2.14.0/vgs-collect.js"></script>
  <script type="module" src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Add some styles to src/style.css file

* {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

html {
  font-size: 10px;
  font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI";
}

iframe {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}

form {
  width: 400px;
  margin: 20px auto;
}

label {
  display: inline-block;
  font-size: 1.2rem;
  margin-bottom: .6rem;
  text-transform: uppercase;
}

.form-field {
  width: 100%;
  height: 4rem;
  position: relative;
  margin-bottom: 1.6rem;
  border-radius: 4px;
  box-shadow: 0 0 3px 0px #bcbcbc;
  padding: 0 10px;
  border: 1px solid transparent;
}

.form-field-group {
  display: flex;
  flex-flow: wrap;
}

.form-field-group div {
  flex: 0 0 50%;
}

.form-field-group div:first-child div {
  border-radius: 4px 0 0 4px;
  clip-path: inset(-3px 0px -3px -3px);
}

.form-field-group div:last-child div {
  border-radius: 0 4px 4px 0;
}

button[type="submit"] {
  width: 100%;
  color: white;
  background-color: #1890FF;
  margin-top: 1.6rem;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI";
  font-size: 1.4rem;
  height: 4rem;
  font-weight: 400;
  text-align: center;
  border: 1px solid transparent;
  padding: 0.375rem 0.75rem;
  border-radius: 0.25rem;
}

.form-field.vgs-collect-container__focused {
  border-color: #1890FF;
}

.form-field-group .form-field.vgs-collect-container__focused {
  clip-path: none;
}

and src/app.js, which initializes the collect.js library. Take a look at env vars:

process.env.VGS_VAULT_ID - it contains vaultId we've added to netlify previously
process.env.VGS_ROUTE_ID - this one will be created automatically by the plugin during deployment.

const vgsForm = VGSCollect.create(
  process.env.VGS_VAULT_ID,
  'sandbox',
  (state) => {}).setRouteId(process.env.VGS_ROUTE_ID);

const css = {
  boxSizing: 'border-box',
  fontFamily: '-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI"',
  color: '#000000',
  '&::placeholder': {
    color: '#bcbcbc'
  }
};

vgsForm.field('#email', {
  type: 'text',
  name: 'login_email',
  placeholder: 'e.g. test@example.com',
  validations: ['required'],
  css
});

vgsForm.field('#password', {
  type: 'password',
  name: 'login_password',
  validations: ['required'],
  placeholder: 'password',
  css
});

document.getElementById('vgs-collect-form').addEventListener('submit', (e) => {
  e.preventDefault();
  vgsForm.tokenize((status, response) => {
    if (status === 200) {
      /**
       * Retrieve tokens from the response and send them to your server.
       */
      console.log(response);
    }
  }, (error) => {
    console.log(error);
  });
});

Now, create netlify.toml file with the following contents:

[build]
  publish = "dist/"
  command = "npm run build"

[dev]
  command = "npm start"

[[plugins]]
  package = "@vgs/netlify-plugin-vgs"

And the last thing, create a package.json file, it should contain:

the plugin itself @vgs/netlify-plugin-vgs
parcel to help with the build process
an entry point declaration "source": "src/index.html":

{
  "name": "netlify-plugin-example",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "source": "src/index.html",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "parcel",
    "build": "parcel build"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@vgs/netlify-plugin-vgs": "0.0.6",
    "parcel": "^2.6.2"
  }
}

and install dependencies by running

npm install

Now, your directory structure should look like this:

your-app
├─ ...
├─ src
| |─ index.html
| |─ style.css
| └─ app.js
├─ netlify.toml
└─ package.json

Start local server

Now, you are ready to start the development server, you can do it by running. It will build your app and open the browser with your running app at http://localhost:8888

netlify build && netlify dev

Deploy to production

This command will build and deploy your code to production. In the output you will find a public URL with your app.

netlify build && netlify deploy --production

palinko91/netlify-plugin-vgs