npm install firebase fails due to grpc

I’m trying to install firebase to my Angular Project. I have tried with several versions of Node.js but no luck so far.

I get an error similar to that of below:

grpc@1.7.2 install E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\grpc node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library

node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(undefined): https://storage.googleapis.com/grpc-precompiled-binaries/node/grpc/v1.7.2/node-v48-win32-x64-unknown.tar.gz node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for grpc@1.7.2 and node@6.12.1 (node-v48 ABI, unknown) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) gyp ERR! configure error gyp ERR! stack Error: Can’t find Python executable “python”, you can set the PYTHON env variable. gyp ERR! stack at Object.failNoPython (E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:483:19) gyp ERR! stack at Object.<anonymous> (E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:508:16) gyp ERR! stack at E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\graceful-fs\polyfills.js:284:29 gyp ERR! stack at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15) gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601 gyp ERR! command “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js” “configure” “–fallback-to-build” “–library=static_library” “–module=E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary\node-v48-win32-x64-unknown\grpc_node.node” “–module_name=grpc_node” “–module_path=E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary\node-v48-win32-x64-unknown” gyp ERR! cwd E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\grpc gyp ERR! node -v v6.12.1 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.6.2 gyp ERR! not ok node-pre-gyp ERR! build error node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute ‘C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --library=static_library --module=E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary\node-v48-win32-x64-unknown\grpc_node.node --module_name=grpc_node --module_path=E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary\node-v48-win32-x64-unknown’ (1) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\grpc\node_modules\node-pre-gyp\lib\util\compile.js:83:29) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:920:16) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:230:5) node-pre-gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601 node-pre-gyp ERR! command “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\grpc\node_modules\node-pre-gyp\bin\node-pre-gyp” “install” “–fallback-to-build” “–library=static_library” node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\grpc node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v6.12.1 node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.6.39 node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok Failed to execute ‘C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --library=static_library --module=E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary\node-v48-win32-x64-unknown\grpc_node.node --module_name=grpc_node --module_path=E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary\node-v48-win32-x64-unknown’ (1) recipe-book-project@0.0.0 E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject `-- (empty)

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules\chokidar\node_modules\fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.1.3: wanted {“os”:“darwin”,“arch”:“any”} (current: {“os”:“win32”,“arch”:“x64”}) npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601 npm ERR! argv “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js” “install” “firebase” npm ERR! node v6.12.1 npm ERR! npm v3.10.10 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! grpc@1.7.2 install: node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the grpc@1.7.2 install script ‘node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library’. npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed. npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the grpc package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with: npm ERR! npm bugs grpc npm ERR! Or if that isn’t available, you can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls grpc npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR! E:\Development\Angular\RecipeBookProject\npm-debug.log npm ERR! code 1

I can post the contents of npm-debug.log if required.

I’m not sure if this is the correct place to post something like this, but google has come up short and the feedback from npm suggests to do this.

Thanks

[ygongdev]

I faced a similar problem. For me, the problem seemed to be my antivirus (Kaspersky). Once I disabled it, I was able to install firebase.

[alchatti]

Same issue, Windows 10 (17134.1), NodeJs (10.0.0), NPM (5.6.0), Yarn (1.6.0) [Stand Alone] Tried all the above suggestions for both npm & yarn, tried going to NodeJS 8LTS and disabling the antivirus (Kaspersky) without any success

The only solution worked for me is to install firebase@4.6.2 or firebase@4.12.1 , no need for anything else. For me the issue is with 4.13.X