Firebase-tools: Error on firebase deploy for version 3.17.6

[MehranJanfeshan]

Version info

3.17.6

Platform Information

LINUX

Steps to reproduce

Run $ firebase use --token $FIREBASE_DEPLOY_KEY

Error:

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/sntp/lib/index.js:19
exports.time = async function (options = {}) {
                     ^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token function
    at Object.exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:76:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:542:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/hawk/lib/index.js:5:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)

Expected behavior

Deploy project to firebase host

[quanganh206]

Me too 💃

[diego-pascual]

Same issue, hawk module only is compatible with node 8.9

[donth77]

I'm also experiencing the same exact error whenever I attempt to deploy, I checked here to see if it was already an issue. Currently unable to deploy any of my functions.

Update:
Downgrading to firebase-tools version 3.17.5 with node version 6.13.1 resolved the issue for me.

[jaakidup]

Same here.

The error happens when I just enter 'firebase' in the console.

[MehranJanfeshan]

I have upgraded to the latest version of node and it works perfectly, I still cannot figure out how the older versions of firebase-tools that were working fine they stopped working. I have event downgraded to 3.0.0 and still, I got the error. they only solution for me was upgrading to the latest version of Node.

[Rulsky]

@MehranJanfeshan async/await isn't supported on node 6 (which is run on GCP functions). I might suggest you apply babel transformation before uploading your code.

[MehranJanfeshan]

@Rulsky, That's the weird part, the deployment was working fine, even with node 6.9.0 but suddenly it thrown an error, Upgrade to latest node fixed the problem.

[Rulsky]

@MehranJanfeshan try to deploy a really simple function which will output version of the node on you cloud functions

const version = https.onRequest('/version', (req, res) => {
  res.send(process.version)
})
module.exports = {
  version
}

This way you will know for sure on what version of node you are running.

BTW, you can borrow some ideas of transforming modern es syntax into node 6 compatible from my helper util - https://github.com/Rulsky/cra-firebase

[laurenzlong]

@MehranJanfeshan How are you installing firebase-tools? What command did you run?

As well, can you run npm ls sntp inside the directory where firebase-tools is installed (find this by running which firebase) and copy and paste the output? The error message comes form sntp, but pre-v3 it did not use async functions. So I'm curious which version got installed for you.

[laurenzlong]

@Rulsky It seems like the "async" function is actually in a dependency of firebase-tools, not in the user's functions code. Your suggestion is good for debugging errors within the functions code, but doesn't apply in this case.

[Rulsky]

@laurenzlong guess because node 8 is in LTS for a really long time and people use it as default environment on their machines. Any information on when cloud functions will switch to node 8?

[MehranJanfeshan]

@laurenzlong I have installed firebase-tools with this command:
npm install -g firebase-tools and node version was 6.9.0, I had this set in the pipeline for few months and it was working fine till yesterday that throws an error.

[laurenzlong]

Can you run npm ls sntp inside the directory where firebase-tools is installed (find this by running which firebase) and copy and paste the output?

[laurenzlong]

And can you also tell me your npm version? Run npm --version.

[tinaliang]

Closing as this is using an outdated version of firebase-tools. If you're still seeing this for version ^6.0.0 please open another issue.