Cloud Functions for Firebase firebase deploy error: "Error parsing triggers: Cannot find module 'firebase-admin'"

Question

When I run

firebase deploy

I get this error:

Error parsing triggers: Cannot find module 'firebase-admin'

Here's my code:

const functions = require('firebase-functions');



const admin = require('firebase-admin');

My

package.json

is:

  {

  "name": "functions",

  "description": "Cloud Functions for Firebase",

  "dependencies": {

    "firebase-admin": "^5.2.1",

    "firebase-functions": "^0.6.2",

    "request": "^2.83.0"

  },

  "private": true

}

Here are my global node modules:

npm list -g --depth=0                                       

/Users/TDK/.nvm/versions/node/v6.11.2/lib

├── child_process@1.0.2

├── firebase-admin@5.3.0

├── firebase-tools@3.12.0

├── fs@0.0.2

├── npm@5.4.2

└── request@2.83.0

I don't have

firebase-admin

installed locally:

Running

npm install

,

npm install firebase-admin

, and

npm install --save firebase-admin

in the local

functions

directory return this error message:

npm ERR! Cannot read property '0' of undefined

I'm using npm version 5.4.2.

I changed

~5.2.1

to

^5.2.1

.

I removed

package-lock.json

but that didn't fix the problem.

I get the same error message when I do this in the project root directory and in the

functions

directory.

Any suggestions?

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Answer 1

What worked was to make a fresh directory and set up the "Hello world" tutorial from the Firebase documentation. This creates a node_modules directory that includes firebase-admin. I then swapped the new node_modules directory with the old directory and it worked.

The problem appears to have been that I had firebase-admin installed globally so npm install wouldn't install it locally in my functions directory, but firebase deploy can't find global Node modules, it has to have local Node modules. That's my guess.

Cloud Functions for Firebase firebase deploy error: "Error parsing triggers: Cannot find module 'firebase-admin'"

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