As of September 17, 2025, Box Next Generation SDKs are no longer supported as separate artifacts. Your existing code will continue to work without changes, but you won't receive new features, updates, bug fixes, or security patches.

In keeping with industry best practices, we are consolidating the Box Next Generation SDKs and Box core SDKs into a single package. This makes migration easier and allows you to seamlessly add new capabilities to existing applications. Two consolidated versions are available in box-node-sdk:

• Version 4 (combined-sdk branch): Contains both box-node-sdk and sdk-gen packages for gradual migration.
• Version 10 (main branch): The latest major release containing only sdk-gen.

For more details, see our SDK versioning strategy document.

This library provides access to the Box Platform API from TypeScript or JavaScript, in Node.js and in the browser.

• Deprecation notice
• Box TypeScript SDK Gen
• Table of contents
• Installing
• Getting Started
• Documentation
• Browser Support
• Upgrades
• Integration Tests
  • Running integration tests locally
    • Create Platform Application
    • Export configuration
• Questions, Bugs, and Feature Requests?
• Copyright and License

npm install box-typescript-sdk-gen

If you use yarn, please do this instead:

yarn add box-typescript-sdk-gen

This is autogenerated Box SDK version.

The full API of this library is listed in api.md, with code samples for each manager in docs/.

To get started with the SDK, get a Developer Token from the Configuration page of your app in the Box Developer Console. You can use this token to make test calls for your own Box account.

The SDK provides an DeveloperTokenAuth class, which allows you to authenticate using your Developer Token. Use instance of DeveloperTokenAuth to initialize Client object. Using Client object you can access managers, which allow you to perform some operations on your Box account.

The example below demonstrates how to authenticate with Developer Token and print names of all items inside a root folder.

const { BoxClient, BoxDeveloperTokenAuth } = require('box-typescript-sdk-gen');

async function main(token) {
  let auth = new BoxDeveloperTokenAuth({ token });
  let client = new BoxClient({ auth });
  let entries = (await client.folders.getFolderItems('0')).entries;
  entries.forEach((entry) => console.log(entry));
}

main('INSERT YOUR DEVELOPER TOKEN HERE');

In order to use in browser make sure you include the lib/bundle.js file and then you can access the classes like so:

const { BoxClient, BoxDeveloperTokenAuth } = window['box-typescript-sdk-gen'];

See example.html for an example website using this SDK.

To run the example locally:

1. Start the local server by running npx serve -p 3000 in the project directory.
2. Make sure http://localhost:3000 is allowlisted in CORS Domains of your application.
3. Head over to http://localhost:3000/example.html.
4. Provide a fresh Developer Token to the dialog window that shows up upon running the example.
5. Make sure that you get an alert message that includes your user name.

• api.md: every manager and method on BoxClient, with signatures and return types.
• docs/: code samples for each manager, plus guides for authentication, configuration, and the client.
• Box API Reference: the underlying REST API.

For box-node-sdk, the maintained replacement for this package, see its README and docs.

This SDK works in modern browsers that support ES6+ features. It seamlessly integrates with frontend frameworks like ReactJS, Angular, and NextJS. Check out our example below:

• React Sample App

Upgrading from our legacy SDKs to the new generation SDKs is a straightforward process. See our migration guide and changelog for more information.

To run integration tests locally you will need a Custom App created in the Box Developer Console with Server Authentication (with JWT) selected as authentication method. Once created you can edit properties of the application:

• In section App Access Level select App + Enterprise Access. You can enable all Application Scopes.
• In section Advanced Features enable Make API calls using the as-user header and Generate user access tokens.

Now select Authorization and submit application to be reviewed by account admin.

1. Select Configuration tab and in the bottom in the section App Settings download your app configuration settings as JSON.
2. Encode configuration file to Base64, e.g. using command: base64 -i path_to_json_file
3. Set environment variable: JWT_CONFIG_BASE_64 with base64 encoded jwt configuration file
4. Set environment variable: BOX_FILE_REQUEST_ID with ID of file request already created in the user account, BOX_EXTERNAL_USER_EMAIL with email of free external user which not belongs to any enterprise.
5. Set environment variable: WORKFLOW_FOLDER_ID with the ID of the Relay workflow that deletes the file that triggered the workflow. The workflow should have a manual start to be able to start it from the API.
6. Set environment variable: APP_ITEM_ASSOCIATION_FILE_ID to the ID of the file with associated app item and APP_ITEM_ASSOCIATION_FOLDER_ID to the ID of the folder with associated app item.
7. Set environment variable: APP_ITEM_SHARED_LINK to the shared link associated with app item.
8. Set environment variable: SLACK_AUTOMATION_USER_ID to the ID of the user responsible for the Slack automation, SLACK_ORG_ID to the ID of the Slack organization and SLACK_PARTNER_ITEM_ID to the ID of the Slack partner item.

Need to contact us directly? Browse the issues tickets! Or, if that doesn't work, file a new one and we will get back to you. If you have general questions about the Box API, you can post to the Box Developer Forum.

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