Chapter 4. Getting a List of Files Using the Dropbox API
Over the next few chapters, we are going to be building a Vue-based Dropbox browser. This app will take your Dropbox API key and allow you to navigate to folders and download files. You will learn about interacting with an API within a Vue app, the Vue life cycle hooks, including the created() method, and finally we will introduce a library called Vuex to handle the caching and state of the app. The app will have shareable URLs and retrieve the contents of the folder passed in via the # URL parameter.
This kind of app would be useful if you wanted to give users access to the contents of your Dropbox without giving out a username and password. Be warned, however, a tech-savvy user could find your API key in the code and abuse it, so don't publish this code to the World Wide Web.
This chapter is going to cover:
- Loading and querying the Dropbox API
- Listing the directories and files from your Dropbox account
- Adding a loading state to your...
