Interested in getting started adding Plaid to your application? This video will show you how to download and run the quickstart application so you can start connecting with your favorite bank and making calls against the Plaid API.

We’ll also give you a rundown of how Plaid is able to connect to banks on behalf of your users, and finish it up with a whirlwind tour of the code so you can better understand what it’s all doing

This application uses Node and React, but you don’t need to be an expert at either one of these to follow along.

Find the Plaid Quickstart here: https://github.com/plaid/quickstart
Read the Quickstart documentation here: https://plaid.com/docs/quickstart/

0:00 - Introduction and agenda
1:37 - Prerequisites
2:30 - installing the Quickstart
3:55 - Environments, keys, and products
7:15 - Running the Quickstart
8:50 - Connecting to a bank
9:46 - Talking to the Plaid API
11:41 - Items and Link
12:35 - How it all works
16:45 - A whirlwind tour of the code
22:23 - Making a call to the Plaid endpoint
23:41 - A basic javascript call
24:18 - A not-so-simple Curl call
25:12 - Thank you!

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