Firebase deploy and serve give undefined message and nothing more

First and foremost thank you for your help in advance. I’m wetting my feet in the firebase world and read the docs on deploying. This is an existing project and the docs are pretty straight forward on serving and deploying your functions.

However, I am getting an undefined error with not much info… again, I’m new to the firebase world. I’ve tried using different node version, updating to latest firebase libraries, and checking permissions (I think it might be related)

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[REQUIRED] Environment info

firebase ^5.11.1 firebase-tools: 7.2.2 firebase-admin: ^8.3.0 firebase-functions ^3.2.0

Platform: macOS

[REQUIRED] Test case

firebase deploy & firebase serve

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

firebase deploy & firebase serve

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

• A successful firebase serve & firebase deploy to work

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

[2019-08-05T21:10:09.224Z] ----------------------------------------------------------------------
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.228Z] Command:       /usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/bin/firebase serve --debug
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.229Z] CLI Version:   7.2.2
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.229Z] Platform:      darwin
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.229Z] Node Version:  v11.14.0
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.230Z] Time:          Mon Aug 05 2019 14:10:09 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.230Z] ----------------------------------------------------------------------

[2019-08-05T21:10:09.239Z] > command requires scopes: ["email","openid","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloudplatformprojects.readonly","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/firebase","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"]
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.239Z] > authorizing via signed-in user
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.239Z] [iam] checking project <project> for permissions ["firebase.projects.get"]
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.241Z] >>> HTTP REQUEST POST https://cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/v1/projects/<project>:testIamPermissions  
 permissions=[firebase.projects.get]
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.577Z] <<< HTTP RESPONSE 200 content-type=application/json; charset=UTF-8, vary=X-Origin, Referer, Origin,Accept-Encoding, date=Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:10:09 GMT, server=ESF, cache-control=private, x-xss-protection=0, x-frame-options=SAMEORIGIN, x-content-type-options=nosniff, server-timing=gfet4t7; dur=211, alt-svc=quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="46,43,39", accept-ranges=none, transfer-encoding=chunked
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.580Z] >>> HTTP REQUEST GET https://firebase.googleapis.com/v1beta1/projects/<project>
 
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.762Z] <<< HTTP RESPONSE 200 content-type=application/json; charset=UTF-8, vary=X-Origin, Referer, Origin,Accept-Encoding, date=Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:10:09 GMT, server=ESF, cache-control=private, x-xss-protection=0, x-frame-options=SAMEORIGIN, x-content-type-options=nosniff, alt-svc=quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="46,43,39", accept-ranges=none, transfer-encoding=chunked

=== Serving from '/Users/Admin/projects/<project>'...

[2019-08-05T21:10:09.768Z] >>> HTTP REQUEST GET https://firebase.googleapis.com/v1beta1/projects/<project>/webApps/-/config  
 
✔  functions: Using node@11 from host.
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.782Z] >>> HTTP REQUEST GET https://firebase.googleapis.com/v1beta1/projects/<project>/adminSdkConfig  
 
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.915Z] <<< HTTP RESPONSE 200 content-type=application/json; charset=UTF-8, vary=X-Origin, Referer, Origin,Accept-Encoding, date=Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:10:09 GMT, server=ESF, cache-control=private, x-xss-protection=0, x-frame-options=SAMEORIGIN, x-content-type-options=nosniff, alt-svc=quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="46,43,39", accept-ranges=none, transfer-encoding=chunked
[2019-08-05T21:10:09.980Z] <<< HTTP RESPONSE 200 content-type=application/json; charset=UTF-8, vary=X-Origin, Referer, Origin,Accept-Encoding, date=Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:10:09 GMT, server=ESF, cache-control=private, x-xss-protection=0, x-frame-options=SAMEORIGIN, x-content-type-options=nosniff, alt-svc=quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="46,43,39", accept-ranges=none, transfer-encoding=chunked
i  hosting: Serving hosting files from: public
✔  hosting: Local server: http://localhost:5000
✔  functions: Emulator started at http://localhost:5001
i  functions: Watching "/Users/Admin/projects/<project>/functions" for Cloud Functions...
[2019-08-05T21:10:10.576Z] [runtime-status] Functions runtime initialized. {"cwd":"/Users/Admin/projects/<project>/functions","node_version":"11.14.0"}
[2019-08-05T21:10:10.576Z] [runtime-status] Disabled runtime features: {"functions_config_helper":true,"network_filtering":true,"timeout":true,"memory_limiting":true,"admin_stubs":true} {}
[2019-08-05T21:10:10.579Z] [runtime-status] Resolved module firebase-admin {"declared":true,"installed":true,"version":"8.3.0","resolution":"/Users/Admin/projects/<project>/functions/node_modules/firebase-admin/lib/index.js"}
[2019-08-05T21:10:10.581Z] [runtime-status] Resolved module firebase-functions {"declared":true,"installed":true,"version":"3.2.0","resolution":"/Users/Admin/projects/<project>/functions/node_modules/firebase-functions/lib/index.js"}
[2019-08-05T21:10:10.584Z] [runtime-status] Resolved module firebase-functions {"declared":true,"installed":true,"version":"3.2.0","resolution":"/Users/Admin/projects/<project>/functions/node_modules/firebase-functions/lib/index.js"}
⚠  undefined
⚠  We were unable to load your functions code. (see above)

[samtstern]

@Mcebrera oh I’m glad you solved it! And I agree, it sounds like this is no longer related to the CLI so I will close it. Both the JS SDK and the Node.js Admin SDK are open source on GitHub though so I would recommend filing an issue over there if you don’t solve this soon.

[Mcebrera]

@samtstern I was able to get passed the undefined error and am no longer seeing it when running serve or deploy. Seems like it needed some file imports that were not there anymore.

However, now I am seeing a database: Firebase: Firebase service named 'database' already registered (app/duplicate-service). error.

I believe this new error is related to the compatibility of firebase and firebase-admin. I am ok with this being closed now that the original error is no longer prevalent and the new error doesn’t seem to be related to firebase-tools.