Once an integration has been added to the Paragon dashboard, you can now display the Connect Portal for that integration in your application. The Connect Portal is a component that your users interact with to connect their third-party app accounts to your application. The Connect Portal provides a fully managed authentication so you don’t need to worry about managing, storing, or refreshing your customers’ credentials.

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Activating the Integration

You’ll need to mark your integration as Active for it to display to your end users. To do this, click the “Inactive” button in the top-right corner and press “Activate”.

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Displaying the Connect Portal in your app

.authenticate should be called at the beginning of your application’s lifecycle in all cases. This is to make sure that the userToken is always as fresh as possible, with respect to your user’s existing session on your own site. You may reference Installing the Connect SDK for a detailed explanation on how to use .authenticate. Example: 
await paragon.authenticate(
	// Your Paragon Project ID
	"38b1f170-0c43-4eae-9a04-ab85325d99f7",

	// See Setup for how to encode your user token
	"eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.ey..."
);
Once .authenticate has been called and the Promise it returns has resolved, you can call .connect to launch your Connect Portal for a specific integration provider. You can find the integrationType identifier you need in the Overview page for the integration. Example: 
paragon.connect("salesforce");
You must have an integration configured of this integrationType for the Portal to appear. Otherwise, this function does nothing.

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Authenticating an Account

Your users can connect their third-party app account in the Connect Portal by clicking “Connect”. Paragon natively supports all sorts of authentication types, like OAuth 2.0 and API Keys.

An OAuth 2.0 Integration

An API Key Integration

Once your user connects their third-party app account in the Connect Portal, you can access their app account by creating Workflows or via the Proxy API. You can always call .getUser to retrieve the currently authenticated user and their connected integration state.