I Built a Simpler Way to Accept Payments in Nigeria (And Open Sourced It)

Accepting payments online in Nigeria shouldn't require a computer science degree. Yet, every time I integrated Pay stack into a React app, I found myself writing 50+ lines of boilerplate code. Manual script loading. Error handling. Callback management. It was repetitive, error-prone, and frankly, unnecessary. So I built NaijaPay — a React component that handles Pay stack integration in 5 lines of code. And I open sourced it. The Problem Here's what integrating Pay stack traditionally looks like: JavaScript // Check if script already loaded if ( ! window . PaystackPop ) { const script = document . createElement ( ' script ' ); script . src = ' https://js.paystack.co/v1/inline.js ' ; script . async = true ; script . onload = () => { initializePayment (); }; script . onerror = () => { console . error ( ' Failed to load Paystack ' ); }; document . body . appendChild ( script ); } else { initializePayment (); } function initializePayment () { const handler = window . PaystackPop . setup ({