Provisioning a working email mailbox from Node.js takes less code than the average OAuth callback handler. No consent screen, no token refresh job, no provider SDK — one fetch call returns a grant ID, and from there the mailbox sends, receives, and RSVPs to calendar invites. That's the pitch for Nylas Agent Accounts, hosted email-and-calendar identities you control entirely through the API. They're in beta, and the official quickstart promises a working account in under 5 minutes. The docs show it in curl; here's the same flow in JavaScript.
What you need
Two things: an API key, and a registered domain for the mailbox to live on. For testing, the zero-DNS path is a *.nylas.email trial subdomain registered from the Dashboard — addresses like test@your-application.nylas.email work immediately. For production you'd register your own domain (the Dashboard generates the MX and TXT records to publish, and verification is automatic once they propagate), but the trial domain is fine for this walkthrough.
export NYLAS_API_KEY="nyk_..."
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