Google+ APIs will be shut down

[tima101]

From Google:

On March 7, 2019, all Google+ APIs and Google+ Sign-in will be shut down completely.

If you see calls to people.get, these can be the result of using the Google+ Sign-In feature in your application, which is now fully deprecated and is being shut down. Developers should migrate from the Google+ Sign-In feature to the more comprehensive Google Sign-in authentication system.

[tima101]

After some research:

• passport-google-oauth uses Google+ API internally to get user's info.
• Maintainer of the package has not merged PR that fixes problem after Google+ API depreciation: https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport-google-oauth2/pull/51
• Forked package was published on NPM that has above fix: https://github.com/passport-next/passport-google-oauth2
• I tested this forked package with disabled Google+ API and it seems to work.

Next steps:

• (After some research:
• passport-google-oauth uses Google+ API internally to get user's info.
• (EDIT: see below comment) Maintainer of the package has not merged PR that fixes problem after Google+ API depreciation: https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport-google-oauth2/pull/51
• Forked package was published on NPM that has above fix: https://github.com/passport-next/passport-google-oauth2
• I tested this forked package with disabled Google+ API and it seems to work.

Next steps:

• (done) update code and text in book's apps
• (done) update code in main app
• (done) update code in boilerplate app
• (done) update code in async-labs/saas

[tima101]

Note to self: try this solution without using forked package: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53887010/is-the-google-strategy-in-passport-js-deprecated-with-the-end-of-google/54112673#54112673

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This solution works as well but does not require using forked package. (done) update code and text in book's apps (done) update code in main app (done) update code in boilerplate app (done) update code in async-labs/saas

[tima101]

Version 2.0.0 of passport-google-oauth20: https://medium.com/passportjs/google-api-shutdown-330c3b47e3df