Box API Navigator - now with Box UI Elements!
Great news! We’ve updated one of our favorite tools for learning the Box APIs, the Box API Navigator, to include demos of the Box UI Elements! Now, you can check out how the Box UI Elements work and the types of customizations available using the Box API Navigator.
You can check out Box API Navigator here.
The Box API Navigator is a tool developed internally at Box that we introduced earlier this year to help developers easily learn how the Box APIs work. Using this web application, you can interact with an example application powered by our APIs and see corresponding Box API requests and responses in real time on the same screen. The Box API Navigator is available to anyone interested in learning about the Box APIs — all you need is a Box account or a Google account.
The Box UI Elements, announced earlier this month, are modular Javascript components (available as Javascript libraries or as packages on npm) that allow you to bring parts of the Box user interface to your own apps and customize it to fit the look and feel of your apps. Now, in the Box API Navigator, you can select a Box UI Element in the navigation on the left side and see a demonstration of the UI Element. Moreover, using the simple dropdown menus and inputs on the right side, you can experiment with some of the customizations available in the UI Elements.
For example, you can provide your own logo (via the logoURL field) and see how the logo would display in a UI Element:
We’d love to hear your feedback on API Navigator or the UI Elements. Feel free to reach out to us on Twitter or post in the Box Developer Forum. You can also explore our documentation for the UI Elements here. We can’t wait to see what you build!
