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Ramu Narasinga
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Build product integrations with AI using Nango.

#nango #opensource #integrations #agents

In this article, we review Nango. You will learn:

  1. What is Nango?

  2. How it works?

  3. Use cases.

What is Nango?

Nango is an open-source platform for building product integrations. It supports 800+ APIs. and works with any backend language, AI coding tool, and agent SDK.

You write integration logic as TypeScript functions, or let AI generate them for you, and deploy to Nango's production runtime. Nango handles auth, execution, scaling, and observability.

Used in production by Replit, Ramp, Mercor, and hundreds more.

Learn more about Nango.

How it works?

Nango gives you three primitives that cover every integration pattern:

1. Auth

Managed OAuth, API keys, and token refresh for 800+ APIs. Embed a white-label auth flow in your app. Nango handles credentials, token storage, and multi-tenant connection management.

// Embed auth in your frontend
nango.openConnectUI({ onEvent: (event) => { /* handle completion */ } });
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2. Proxy

Make authenticated API requests on behalf of your users. Send requests through Nango's proxy: it resolves the provider, injects credentials, handles retries and rate limits, and returns the response.

import { Nango } from '@nangohq/node';

const nango = new Nango({ secretKey: '<NANGO-SECRET-KEY>' });

// Make an authenticated request to any API
const response = await nango.get({
    endpoint: '/v3/contacts',
    providerConfigKey: '<INTEGRATION-ID>',
    connectionId: '<CONNECTION-ID>'
});
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3. Functions

Write integration logic as TypeScript functions and deploy to Nango. Functions execute on a production runtime with built-in API access, retries, storage, and observability.

Use the AI builder to generate them from a description of your use case.

export default async function run(nango: Nango) {
    const { owner, repo, title, body } = nango.input;

    const response = await nango.post({
        endpoint: `/repos/${owner}/${repo}/issues`,
        data: { title, body }
    });

    return response.data;
}
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I copied this above info from theNango README..

Usecases.

I found these following in the Nango docs:

  1. Tool calling for AI agents.

  2. Sync external API datants.

  3. Run external API operations.

  4. Process external webhooks.

  5. Build a unified API.

  6. Customize per customer.

  7. Connection lifecycle events.

  8. Sample app.

Check out the Nango documentation..

About me:

Hey, my name is ramunarasinga. Email: ramunarasinga@gmail.com

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References:

  1. github.com/NangoHQ/nango.

  2. nango.dev.

  3. nango.dev/docs/getting-started/use-cases/syncs.

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Sapnesh Naik •

Excellent info! Thanks for mentioning us. Quick Note: You can now use coding agents like Claude/Cursor/Codex to build integrations on Nango. You just need to have the Skill installed: nango.dev/docs/guides/functions/fu...