Hello World for Dropbox apps?

I want a very simple testbed for Dropbox apps written in straight JavaScript. Nothing extra. Just: 1. Get authorized. 2. Write a file. 3. Nothing more!

Using exactly the best practices that Dropbox wants us to use. I should be able to have something running in ten minutes, or less. Nothing but JavaScript and HTML. No pre-processors. No complicated builds. Let's drop the learning curve.

For the record, these are the docs I've been puzzling over:

This is just a first step. Then we'll take another, and another.

A picture of a slice of cheese cake.

PS: Thanks to Steve Marx, I have a Hello World app for Dropbox and wrote a blog post explaining how to do it yourself.


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By Dave Winer, Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 7:31 PM. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.