Firebase-js-sdk: Cannot install firebase npm

[DanceParty]

[REQUIRED] Describe your environment

• Operating System version: Windows 10
• Node JS: 11
• NPM: 6.4.1

Describe the problem

npm install --save firebase"

Cannot install the package, all other packages are installing perfectly fine. If i run this command again, I will get a lot of VSStudio C# errors not sure why?

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[DanceParty]

I was able to get it installed by --force, but I feel like this is not the best :/

[kczx3]

I get the same. No pre-builts for Node 11 it looks like. Possible I don't have the tools for building native Node add-ons that it needs but wouldn't mind seeing if there is something else at play.

EDIT: Worked by reverting down to Node 10.13.0

[Feiyang1]

Thanks for reporting it. It seems to be an issue with Node 11. see https://github.com/grpc/grpc-node/issues/594
As @kczx3 mentioned, downgrading to Node10 is the workaround for now. Please follow the issue in grpc repo for updates.

[Mindgames]

grpc/grpc-node#594 Have been fixed. Problem still persist

[ilog2000]

Issue still exists. I ran into it with the latest node.js 11.2.0. Workaround with downgrading to node.js 10.13.0 helped

[sunnylqm]

Need to update grpc dependency to 1.16.1 https://github.com/grpc/grpc-node/issues/594#issuecomment-439526215