How to implement Google API with React, Redux and Webpack

I'm trying to get google calendar events into my React Redux app.
I've tried using googleapis and google-auth-library but webpack is throwing errors because googleapis was built to run server side and bundle.js is referenced from client. So I've read a few forums about these errors and they all point to using Google's js client library instead.

I understand how to implement this in a java or php app (I'm old... 35 ;) but I'm new to React Redux and I'm looking for the best way to implement this.

I'm trying to fetch the events from my calendar in my actions.js. I tried including <script src="https://apis.google.com/js/api.js"></script> in my html header and then using gapi.load() from actions.js. I also tried creating a api.js file and referencing that with require('./api'). I also tried to use the cli commands from the Node.js Quickstart guide to get an access_token and then just use axios to call Google API directly but I'm getting a 403. I'm thinking I'm just not providing the proper headers but that wouldn't be best practice anyway.

My question is basically how do I reference Google's js client library from my actions.js file while adhering to Redux standards?

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