This is an example project that demonstrates how to connect to Nylas using the Native Authentication flow. Note that different email providers have different native authentication processes; this example project only works with Microsoft Exchange.

This example uses the Flask web framework to make a small website, and uses the Flask-WTF extension to implement an HTML form so the user can type in their Exchange account information. Once the native authentication has been set up, this example website will contact the Nylas API to learn some basic information about the current user, such as the user's name and email address. It will display that information on the page, just to prove that it can fetch it correctly.

In order to successfully run this example, you need to do the following things:

To do this, make a Nylas Developer account. You should see your client ID and client secret on the dashboard, once you've logged in on the Nylas Developer website.

Open the config.json file in this directory, and replace the example values with the real values. This is where you'll need the client ID and client secret fron Nylas. You'll also need to replace the example secret key with any random string of letters and numbers: a keyboard mash will do.

This project depends on a few third-party Python modules, like Flask. These dependencies are listed in the requirements.txt file in this directory. To install them, use the pip tool, like this:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Finally, run the example project like this:

python server.py

Once the server is running, visit http://127.0.0.1:5000/ in your browser to test it out!