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A. Paul
A. Paul

Reputation: 57

Creating new Token in Plaid (/link/token/create)

I am trying to integrate Plaid into an Expo app for the first time and am a bit confused on the integration process.

I have been following the following guides:

https://github.com/plaid/react-native-plaid-link-sdk

https://plaid.com/docs/link/link-token-migration-guide/

One thing that has been confusing for me is the process of generating a new token using "/link/token/create". What exactly does this mean and where do I perform "/link/token/create" in order to fetch this token?

Thank you!

edit:

As based on the first link, I have the following:

<View style={styles.container}>
  <Text style={styles.title}>Tab One</Text>
    <PlaidLink
    tokenConfig={{
      token: '#GENERATED_LINK_TOKEN#',
    }}
    onSuccess={(success: LinkSuccess) => {
      console.log(success);
    }}
    onExit={(exit: LinkExit) => {
      console.log(exit);
    }}
  >
    <Text>Add Account</Text>
  </PlaidLink>
</View>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2485

Answers (1)

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 1853

Have you checked out the Quickstart? It has a sample implementation showing how /link/token/create is used.

More fundamentally, your sample code is all frontend sample code. Plaid apps need both a frontend (to display Link) and a backend (to call the API) -- all Plaid API calls (including to /link/token/create) need to be made from the backend. When your user expresses an intent to link a Plaid account, your frontend should trigger the backend to call /link/token/create, and the backend should then pass that token to the frontend to be used in initializing Link.

Upvotes: 2

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