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ng add error - catch clause variable is not an Error instance

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Version info

Angular:. 14.2.0

How to reproduce these conditions

ng new App
ng add @angular/fire

Debug output

** Errors in the JavaScript console **

An unhandled exception occurred: catch clause variable is not an Error instance See “/private/tmp/ng-qfEJEW/angular-errors.log” for further details.

** Output from /private/tmp/ng-qfEJEW/angular-errors.log **

[error] AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: catch clause variable is not an Error instance at assertIsError (/xxx/node_modules/@angular/cli/src/utilities/error.js:19:26) at AddCommandModule.runSchematic (/xxx/node_modules/@angular/cli/src/command-builder/schematics-command-module.js:304:43) at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) at async AddCommandModule.executeSchematic (/xxx/node_modules/@angular/cli/src/commands/add/cli.js:283:20) at async AddCommandModule.handler (/xxx/node_modules/@angular/cli/src/command-builder/command-module.js:111:24)

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 10 months ago
Reactions:4
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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lazar0303commented, Dec 1, 2022

you can also npm install -g firebase-tools firebase login

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byrondovercommented, Nov 24, 2022

You can also work around this issue by installing firebase-tools as a dev dependency before running the schematic.

e.g.

yarn add -D firebase-tools

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