Update dependencies

[balazspiller]

• Updated Google API Library and its dependencies, but only up to the point that everything is still compatible with PHP 7.4
• Deleted a ton of files related to unneeded Google API services
• Inside vendor-prefixed, generated a new version for all the dependency classes with PHP-Scoper, prefixed with the namespace Rank_Math_Instant_Indexing, for example Rank_Math_Instant_Indexing\Google\Service\Indexing
• Removed vendor folder and added it to .gitignore

This should solve our conflict issues, while we also update the dependencies.

[pratikrm]

@balazsrm

It is working fine, and the plugin size has not increased. Just one thing: could we automate the deletion of the files by running a command? Like, in the Rank Math plugin, we created a file that removes the doc comments added to the .pot file, which runs with the npm run dist command.

I'm not sure if we can do something like this to delete the files. We will probably need to create a list of folders and files that need to be deleted.

[balazspiller]

@pratikrm I've added gulp tasks to automate the process but I couldn't properly test it yet because of issues on my local dev environment.

[pratikrm]

@balazsrm

I couldn't build the files on my setup either. When I run npm install or npm install --legacy-peer-deps, it fails. I think we may need to update the node packages used in the plugin.

Are you able to install the node_modules on your setup?

[balazspiller]

@pratikrm I was able to fix the npm install issue by modernizing all the outdated and deprecated libraries. It required lots of changes in the gulp file as well. But now everything seems to work correctly, we can update all the libraries while also being able to run them independently, without any conflict with other plugins that use the same libraries.

[balazspiller]

Hi @pratikrm with my latest changes that I just pushed it is working correctly for me, but only with latest version of Node and Composer, and PHP at version 8.2 on my local environment. To test it, you can delete these files and folders:

composer.lock
package-lock.json
vendor
vendor-prefixed
node_modules

Then run npm install, then npm run dist, which should run a series of commands to install composer dependencies, clean unneeded files, use php-scoper to add custom namespaces to the classes, generate the autoload file for the new classes, and finally it runs the old build commands for the scss and the pot file.