Got github's api to work by passing it through out backend.

configManager.js

@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ module.exports=
         getSessionSecret: function()
         {
             return config.sessionSecret;
+        },
+
+        getAPIUser: function()
+        {
+            return config.user;
         }
 
     };

package.json

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "express": "^4.16.4",
     "express-session": "^1.15.6",
-    "fs": "0.0.1-security"
+    "fs": "0.0.1-security",
+    "got": "^9.6.0"
   }
 }

public/js/githubAPI.js

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  */
 
 
-const APIROOT = "https://api.github.com";
+const APIROOT = "api";
 
 const API_USER_PATH = "/users/";
 

routes/api.js

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+const routes = require('express').Router();
+
+
+const got = require("got");
+
+
+const GITHUB_API = "https://api.github.com";
+
+
+const configLoader = require('../configManager');
+
+const authenticate = "?client_id=" + configLoader.getClientID() +
+    "&client_secret=" + configLoader.getClientSecret();
+
+
+function queryGitHubAPI(requestURL)
+{
+    return new Promise(function(reject, resolve)
+    {
+        const queryRUL = GITHUB_API + requestURL + authenticate;
+
+        got(queryRUL, { json: true }).then(response =>
+        {
+            resolve(response.body);
+        }).catch(error =>
+        {
+            resolve(response.body)
+        });
+    })
+}
+
+//https://api.github.com/users/whatever?client_id=xxxx&client_secret=yyyy
+// function authenticateWithGitHub()
+// {
+//     const authURL = GITHUB_API + "/users/" + configLoader.getAPIUser() + "?client_id=" + configLoader.getClientID() +
+//         "&client_secret=" + configLoader.getClientSecret();
+//
+//     return new Promise(function(resolve, reject)
+//     {
+//         got(authURL, { json: true }).then(response =>
+//         {
+//             console.log(response);
+//             resolve(response);
+//         }).catch(error => {
+//             reject(error);
+//             console.log(error.response.body);
+//         });
+//     })
+//
+// }
+
+
+
+
+routes.get('/*', (request, result) =>
+{
+    const gitHubAPIURL = request.url;
+
+    queryGitHubAPI(gitHubAPIURL).then(function(data)
+    {
+        result.write(JSON.stringify(data));
+        result.end();
+    }).catch(function(error)
+    {
+        result.write(JSON.stringify(error));
+        result.end();
+    })
+});
+
+module.exports = routes;

routes/index.js

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+const routes = require('express').Router();
+
+
+const api = require('./api');
+routes.use('/api', api);
+
+routes.get("/", (request, result) =>
+{
+    result.redirect("index.html");
+});
+
+routes.get('*', (request, result) =>
+{
+    result.redirect("404.html");
+});
+
+module.exports = routes;

server.js

@@ -21,12 +21,13 @@ app.use(express.json());
 
 app.use(express.static('public'));
 
-
 const routes = require('./routes');
 app.use('/', routes);
 
 
 
+
+
 app.listen(configLoader.getConfiguration().port, () =>
     console.log(`App listening on port ${configLoader.getPort()}!`)
 );