Angular Universal with Angular Fire is breaking - IDBIndex is not defined

I have a project i am trying to implement ssr with universal angular. but I’m not getting it. I thought it was a problem in my code until I started a project from scratch to test and found something was wrong.

**ReferenceError: IDBIndex is not defined**

I commented on this open issue in the angular universal repository

Version info

Angular CLI: 13.1.2
Node: 16.13.1
Package Manager: npm 8.1.2
OS: linux x64

Angular: 13.1.1
... animations, cdk, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... material, platform-browser, platform-browser-dynamic
... platform-server, router

Package                         Version
---------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect       0.1301.2
@angular-devkit/build-angular   13.1.2
@angular-devkit/core            13.1.2
@angular-devkit/schematics      13.1.2
@angular/cli                    13.1.2
@angular/fire                   7.2.0
@nguniversal/builders           13.0.1
@nguniversal/express-engine     13.0.1
@schematics/angular             13.1.2
rxjs                            7.4.0
typescript                      4.5.4

How to reproduce these conditions

I created this empty project to simulate the problem and show that it’s not an error in the code I made. https://github.com/miguelsmuller/teste-project

I just followed the following steps:

• ng new teste-project
• ng add @angular/material
• ng add @ngrx/store
• ng add @ngrx/effects
• ng add @nguniversal/express-engine
• ng add @angular/fire

each command above is a commit from that test project

the last command (ng add @angular/fire) returned as shown in the image below. The informed parameters are also shown in the image.

and finally the error that is displayed when I run the command npm run build:ssr && npm run serve:ssr - image below in the right column. You can also see in this image on the left that when I run npm run start as csr no error is displayed.

Debug output

ReferenceError: IDBIndex is not defined
    at /home/migue/FromLinux/projects/teste-project/dist/teste-project/server/main.js:1:4322339
    at /home/migue/FromLinux/projects/teste-project/dist/teste-project/server/main.js:1:4644564
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/migue/FromLinux/projects/teste-project/dist/teste-project/server/main.js:1:4644796)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47

Expected behavior

I believe the expected is node running the app listening on port 4000

Actual behavior

The compilation process is going on but probably with some error because the npm run build:ssr is finished but the npm run serve:ssr is not terminated, it just displays the entire contents of the bundle on the console and then the ReferenceError: IDBIndex is not defined error appears

[miguelsmuller]

@all do you have any news other than downgrading?

[miguelsmuller]

I do not know. but it seems to me that the maintainers will not give a damn about this situation.