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why can't I use async / await
See original GitHub issueIf I try to use syntax like async (req, res) => {... in my firebase function I get the error below when deploying. I assume it’s a language feature that’s not supported yet?
error Parsing error: Unexpected token =>
Removing the async makes it go away…
However, I have a dependency in my package (ccxt) that does use the async / await syntax, and it works just fine. Why is this?
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If anybody else is continuing to receive this issue after doing the updates, make sure that
"ecmaVersion": 8is set in your .eslintrc.json as well.async/await is only supported in the Node 8 runtime, which was only recently added as a beta runtime in firebase functions.
You can use it by adding the following to your package.json.
"engines": { "node": "8" },