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Mike Street
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Mike Street (aka mikestreety) is a frontend developer from Brighton, UK. Specializing in Gulp, SCSS, HTML, and Vue, he has been developing websites professionally since 2010. After making his first Vue app as an experimental side project, he's been hooked ever since. When not developing on the web, Mike likes to explore the Sussex countryside on his bike, start a new side-project without finishing the last, or heading to the cinema.
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Creating a Dropbox app and initializing the SDK

Before we interact with the Vue instance, we need to connect to the Dropbox API through the SDK. This is done via an API key that is generated by Dropbox itself to keep track of what is connecting to your account and where Dropbox requires you to make a custom Dropbox app.

Head to the Dropbox developers area and select Create your app. Choose Dropbox API and select either a restricted folder or full access. This depends on your needs, but for testing, choose Full Dropbox. Give your app a name and click the button Create app.

Generate an access token to your app. To do so, when viewing the app details page, click the Generate button under the Generated access token. This will give you a long string of numbers and letters - copy and paste that into your editor and store it as a variable at the top of your JavaScript. In this book,...

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Mike Street

Mike Street (aka mikestreety) is a frontend developer from Brighton, UK. Specializing in Gulp, SCSS, HTML, and Vue, he has been developing websites professionally since 2010. After making his first Vue app as an experimental side project, he's been hooked ever since. When not developing on the web, Mike likes to explore the Sussex countryside on his bike, start a new side-project without finishing the last, or heading to the cinema.
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