Plaid OAuth and JavaScript -- Plaid Academy

Important: Please read the pinned comment for information about updates to the testing flow! Adding OAuth to your Plaid-powered application can lead to a more resilient connection and a better experience for your user. This video will demonstrate how you can get started adding OAuth to a basic vanilla JavaScript and NodeJS application. We’ll also start with a nice explanation of how OAuth works and how Plaid fits in, so you have a better understanding of what’s going on. Find the starter application here, in our Tutorial Resources repo ---https://github.com/plaid/tutorial-resources 0:00 - Introduction and agenda 1:40 - High level overview 3:12 - How basic OAuth works 4:29 - Some nice benefits 5:28 - Where Plaid fits in 8:07 - Running our starter app 10:13 - Reviewing the code 13:35 - OAuth already works?!? 14:50 - Are we done? 16:14 - Enabling the redirect flow 18:00 - Registering our URL 19:50 - Completing the OAuth flow 21:53 - Retaining the Link token 24:45 - Handling errors 25:38 - Clearing the Link token 25:55 - Previewing on mobile web 26:26 - Can I switch between flows? 27:33 - Conclusion! Music by WinkingFoxMusic from Pixabay