Stripe PaymentIntent in Vue/Nuxt: loadStripe and confirmCardPayment without a wrapper

TL;DR

Vue apps do not need a Stripe wrapper component. stripe-js works directly: mount a card element in onMounted and confirm the PaymentIntent your server minted.

[script setup]
import { ref, onMounted } from 'vue';
import { loadStripe } from '@stripe/stripe-js';

const cardEl = ref(null);
let stripe, card;

onMounted(async () => {
  stripe = await loadStripe('YOUR_PUBLISHABLE_KEY_VALUE');
  const elements = stripe.elements();
  card = elements.create('card');
  card.mount(cardEl.value);
});

async function pay() {
  // fetch the client secret from your server first
  const { clientSecret } = await fetch('/api/payment-intent', {
    method: 'POST',
    body: JSON.stringify({ amount: 2000, currency: 'usd' }),
  }).then((r) => r.json());

  const { error, paymentIntent } = await stripe.confirmCardPayment(clientSecret, {
    payment_method: { card },
  });
  if (error) {
    console.log(error.message);
  } else if (paymentIntent.status === 'succeeded') {
    console.log('paid');
  }
}
[/script]

[template]
  [div]
    [div ref="cardEl"][/div]
    [button @click="pay"]Pay[/button]
  [/div]
[/template]

Steps

1. - Mount the card element after loadStripe resolves; the element needs the DOM node to exist.

• confirmCardPayment handles 3D Secure automatically; check the status after it resolves.

When to use

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Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

stripe-js (loadStripe, elements, confirmCardPayment) is framework-agnostic and works directly in Vue/Nuxt without a wrapper; the PaymentIntent client_secret comes from a server endpoint (docs.stripe.com/stripe-js, docs.stripe.com/payments/payment-intents). In Nuxt, the publishable key lives in public runtime config. Verified against live docs 2026-09-26.