Developer Overview
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DIMO provides a comprehensive suite of developer tools designed to support your build process.
The available tools vary based on your developer classification and your product’s integration type with DIMO. Below, you’ll find detailed descriptions of the basic components to build an integration with DIMO:
Developers should start at the console. The console encompasses the Developer License and DIMO Credits (aka DCX). Through registration on the console, developers can now manage their license access and buy credits for infrastructure costs at scale.
Drop this component into your React app, or simply redirecting users to login.dimo.org using any button component on your web-app: this is your entry point to getting vehicle permissions shared with your app (handled via SACD permissions contract), getting access to the user's Account, and sending app-defined transactions on behalf of the users.
The moment that end users shared their vehicle permissions with your application, you can now start to go through the authentication process. Authentication to vehicle data includes fetching for two JSON Web Tokens: A Developer JWT to show that you are the registered developer, and a Vehicle JWT to prove that the vehicle gave you the right permissions to fetch sensitive data.
Once you have data permissions, this is where your app can start fetching data from the DIMO APIs. DIMO does offer a few public API endpoints where vehicle permissions are not required, but overall, you should be able to utilize Data SDKs in different programming languages to get the data of your interest. This is where integrating DIMO data into your application happens.
The below embed showcases a typical developer journey or flow to get your application connected to DIMO, requesting vehicle permissions, and using the SDKs to perform actions. The flow begins with creating an application in the DIMO Developer Console, and takes you through the steps required to begin using vehicle data. You can see an expanded view of this flow by clicking on the fullscreen icon in the right corner.
