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How to connect and use your Jira API with a React app

Jira is a popular project management tool developed by Atlassian. It is widely used by agile development teams to plan, track, and release software projects. The platform is designed to help teams collaborate more efficiently, manage tasks and workflows, and track issues and bugs in their projects.

Occasionally, you may want to use the Jira API to display a collection of tasks or make some edits to them through your React app. This guide tells you how to make a simple demonstration.

Prerequisites

We'll be using Node.JS v18, NPM v9, and a Jira profile which you can sign up for free here.

Creating a Jira client app

You first need to create a client app on Jira itself.

1. Go to https://developer.atlassian.com
2. Go to Profile Picture > Developer console > Create > OAuth 2.0 integration. Give a name and create the client
3. Go to Authorization, click Add within the OAuth 2.0 (3LO) row
4. Add the Callback URL for your React app. By default, this is http://localhost:3000
5. On the same page, under Authorization URL generator, click Add APIs

6. In the directed page (Permissions), click Add under Jira API. The Add button will change to Configure. Click that

7. Enable all Jira platform REST API scopes. Click Edit Scopes to enable the scopes

8. For production (so other users can use the app), make sure to change the Distribution status to Sharing by going to Distribution and clicking Edit to enable sharing

9. Finally, take note of the Client ID and Secret under Settings. You'll need these later

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