Programmatically running deploy rules hangs thread

Trying to do something similar to the example in the firebase-tools docs.

var client = require('firebase-tools');
client.deploy.rules({
  firebase: 'myfirebase',
  token: process.env.FIREBASE_TOKEN,
  cwd: '/path/to/project/folder'
}).then(function() {
  console.log('Rules have been deployed!')
}).catch(function(err) {
  // handle error 
});

The rules successfully deploy but the thread seems to hang after running this command. I have ensured that my firebase token is set properly.

Do the tools need to be shutdown in any particular way when being used programmatically?

I’m currently running firebase-tools 2.2.0 and node v5.2.0

[austin43]

@mbleigh Are there other recommendations on this? process.exit() isn’t a viable method because if you’re running the script inside of another process it will quit the whole thing.

[Memeriaj]

So we’ve removed almost all of our usages of long running websockets in the CLI (in favor of more direct REST requests). So recent versions of the CLI exit normally on its own when using it progammatically. If this is not the case please open another issue for the specific command (I believe that all of the deploys should be fine, but I suppose there could be some other lingering usages that I was unaware of).