Program doesn't terminate when running FCM.sendToDevice in nodejs.

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[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe your environment

• Operating System version: Mac OS High Sierra (10.13.1)
• Firebase SDK version: firebase: (^4.5.1)
• Library version: firebase-admin (^5.4.2)
• Firebase Product: FCM / admin.messaging()

[REQUIRED] Step 3: Describe the problem

NodeJS program doesn’t terminate after running FCM command.

Steps to reproduce:

• save the following code as: fcm-test.js
• run the code with

node fcm-test.js

• In my enviroment, it’ll not stop untill you forcefully stop it by pressing CTRL+C.

Relevant Code:

const admin = require('firebase-admin');
const serviceAccount = require("../../../service-accounts/production.json");
const registrationTokens = require('./tokens');
// ["someShortString1:someLongString1", "someShortString2:someLongString2", ...];
admin.initializeApp({
  credential: admin.credential.cert(serviceAccount)
})
const body = 'body';
const title = 'title';
const payload = {
  data: {
    body,
    title
  },
  notification: {
    body,
    title
  }
}
const fcm = admin.messaging();
const printJSON = (thing) => { console.log(JSON.stringify(thing, null, 2))};
fcm.sendToDevice(registrationTokens, payload).then(printJSON).catch(printJSON);

[dandv]

You need to call app.delete() if you wish to ensure graceful termination of the process.

How was the developer supposed to know they had to call app.delete()?

[hiranya911]

Given that you’re calling res.send() in each possible case, I believe it’s fine.