Login with google

[PVince81]

See branch "23-twitteroauth", maybe add it there.

There is a "oauth_provider" column in the DB that could use the value "google" instead of "twitter".

[jdrudolph]

I implemented a minimal working system for authentification in a different repository. Otherwise I would have had difficulties understanding the growing code base.
While it all works at http://dry-hamlet-3050.herokuapp.com/ i would like to make a better design for authentification and user management before merging.

There are still some things which are therefore to be implemented and tested

• Unifiy data obtained from auth. requests by different providers
• Create unwaste - user acoounts
• Ensure that users stay authenticated
• Use the session/cookie for more comfort

As I am still new to many concepts the following things are still a bit unclear:

• How do sessions work and how to use them correctly
• What security measures need to be implemented

[PVince81]

Adding link here for reference: https://github.com/jdrudolph/auth

[PVince81]

Ok, looks like passport is much better than the oauth library as it's much more high-level.
Will try to use that in the app instead.

[PVince81]

@jdrudolph I've added passport on this branch, using your code as inspiration: 23-passportauth

Please have a look. You can test it with your google app if you like, you need to add your settings into settings.json

The code should be generic enough to be able to login with anything.

The only issue left is that I don't know yet how to pre-init Angular JS with the correct user name.
One idea is to either render "index.html" as server-side template, with variables.
Or make Angular JS make an initial HTTP call to the server to ask what the current user is (which would be read from the session).

I'm not merging this yet because of that missing part (and needs more testing)