BTCPay Server has come a long way since Nicolas Dorier first decided to build a software project with the goal of deprecating payment processor BitPay in response to its actions during the 2017 Block Wars. in one of, if not hethe most used self-hosted payment processing stack for bitcoin users.
It is no longer used only by small e-store operators and merchants, but also by large companies such as bitcoin-via-btcpay”>cheap name (a domain registrar) and CheapAir (an airline booking company) have moved to using self-hosted BTCPay instances instead of centralized payment processors.
The software stack is ready to support easy integration into almost all major merchants: WooCommerce, Shopify, WordPress, as well as its own Greenfield API for custom integration. Internally it supports easy wallet management, on-chain hot wallet and cold wallet integration is very simple, Lightning support requires the user to obtain their own receiving liquidity, but the rest of the process to activate a node is well supported and is Simple, the suite even supports Payjoin and Wabisabi coin combinations. It has truly become a complete stack that supports almost every way of using bitcoin that would be desirable for a trader.
Even without the use of pre-packaged platforms like WooCommerce or Shopify, the BTCPay button is designed to make custom integration of basic receiving functionality into any web project seamless and works with a few configurations on the BTCPay server side and pasting a few lines of code in your project. While the BTCPay Server platform provides code snippets that can be placed directly into HTML and PHP projects, more work is required to make these snippets work in single-page application frameworks like React. There simply hasn’t been a similar, easy-to-use integration solution for Javascript React applications, one of the largest web frameworks out there for developers.
That is no longer the case. Ant (of TimechainStats fame) and TC (creator of Timechain Calendar) have implemented the BTCPay Pay button natively in React. When working to integrate BTCPay into their applications, which were written in React, the two encountered challenges and were faced with a multitude of options to refactor the front-end code provided by BTCPay and get it to work in the “React way.” So they created the tool to make it easier for others.
The React BTCPay payment button is a complete reimplementation of the standard payment button functionality for React applications. It provides the button as a single component that can be easily integrated into any React application and provides complete customization within that component without needing to reconfigure or alter settings on the BTCPay server side. Simply place the button, connect it to the server, and everything from then on can be reconfigured or modified from the application side of the connection.
Ant said this:
“TC and I wanted to create an easy way for other React developers to use the amazing functionality of the BTCPay payment button seamlessly within their React apps, a move inspired by our initial attempts to integrate BTCPay into our React Timechain Calendar projects and TimechainStats. Now, with just two props (the store ID and the domain), any React app can fully integrate the BTCPay payment button. It’s a native implementation that aims to fill a small but impactful gap for developers. React.
Think of it as a bridge: on one side, you have the robust and highly customizable BTCPay server payment button; On the other hand, there are React developers who need an easy-to-integrate native solution.
Our component allows for a high level of customization built with “the React way” in mind. “It’s a specialized tool, ideal for donations or tip jars, that simplifies the integration process while offering the freedom to modify UI elements as needed.”
Prior to the release of the React BTCPay server payment button, integration into one of the world’s largest web application frameworks required a complete custom implementation by the app developer to integrate BTCPay functionality into a React app. Now it’s as simple and easy as integrating the BTCPay payment button into HTML or PHP projects.
Even word on the street is that Nicolas Dorier plans to formally integrate this into the BTCPay suite itself. While in the grand scheme of things this is a small project reimplementing existing work, it will make integrating BTCPay into React projects for future developers much simpler and less time-consuming than for Ant and TC to build. this from scratch for your own projects. That is the exact type of open source attitude and action that has created many of the tools and software stacks used in this ecosystem today.
Learn more about the React BTCPay Server Payment Button by visiting the Github repository.
