Express example?

[newz2000]

Hello, I've gotten the example code working but going from essentially "hello world" to being able to use this in a web app has proven too much of a challenge.

I've also searched the web for example apps using Express and google-api-nodejs-client and come up with nothing useful.

I'd really love for an example where you can view an app's home page, click an authorize/login button and view some information specific to that user. For example, view the last five files the user uploaded or last few posts to Google+ or similar.

Really, anything is useful. I've gotten apps working with Passport authentication, but that is different than authorizing an app to to use a Google API on the user's behalf.

Does anyone have time to document or create an example app that does this?

[ryanseys]

The following example I made is really out of date but might give you a good starting point... In theory it used to work though it might require some tweaking to work now.

See it here: https://github.com/ryanseys/google-api-test-app

[ryanseys]

@newz2000 Let me know if this helps or if you have any other questions. I will be happy to help!

[newz2000]

@ryanseys thanks, it is helpful. I'm still working on getting it working, but it's a big nudge in the right direction.

Sadly, my life is made complicated by being behind a proxy. I am going to try the code at home if I don't get it going at work, but for now I'm trying this (so far unsuccessfully) in routes/index.js:

if(process.env.http_proxy) {
  google.options({ proxy: process.env.http_proxy});
  console.log('Setting a proxy');
}

I'll post details once I get it working.

[newz2000]

I've got it working, thanks! There are problems when working behind a proxy, I'll work them out later if I can and file a ticket if applicable. This example works pretty good. The only changes I had to make where adding the googleapis module to package.json and updating the require statement in routes/index.js and then updating app.use(session...) to get rid of some deprecation errors.

index 3a2376f..5e5eae7 100644
--- a/app.js
+++ b/app.js
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ app.use(logger('dev'));
 app.use(bodyParser.json());
 app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded());
 app.use(cookieParser());
-app.use(session({secret: 'keyboard cat'}))
+app.use(session({secret: 'keyboard cat', resave: true, saveUninitialized: false}))
 app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));

 app.use('/', routes);

[ryanseys]

Sweet! Thanks for the update, I'll file an issue on my repo and make the appropriate changes when I have time.

[newz2000]

Or maybe I can propose a change. I have the diff right here... :-)

[ryanseys]

Do it up! 😄