Getting Firebase not found error while deploying functions in firebase

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I am trying to host a app in firebase and its giving me error that

Error: Error parsing triggers: Cannot find module 'firebase'

Try running "npm install" in your functions directory before deploying.

I have executed npm install command several times but nothing new.

Please help

Did you install the Firebase CLI? If you did, make sure you have the updated version. You can run npm install -g firebase-tools in your project directory — Rosário P. Fernandes
– Rosário P. Fernandes, Commented Mar 15, 2017 at 11:48
It looks like you forgot to run npm install (or npm install firebase) before deploying. See the last line of the terminal. — Frank van Puffelen
– Frank van Puffelen, Commented Mar 15, 2017 at 13:42
Also, make sure you're running npm install from the functions subdirectory of your project. — Michael Bleigh
– Michael Bleigh, Commented Mar 15, 2017 at 18:11

ArtemKha · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-17 07:21:37Z

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Cannot find module 'firebase-functions' means that you need to install packages. In your project directory run

$ cd functions
$ npm install

then return back and fire!

$ firebase deploy

Happy coding!

edited Aug 17, 2017 at 7:21

answered Jul 28, 2017 at 9:41

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Kuday Over a year ago

Still works! Appreciate it

Robert-Jan Huijsman · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-16 22:59:58Z

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By default, the firebase dependency isn't in your functions/package.json. Instead, you'll find it lists firebase-admin, the specialized server-side Firebase SDK which is the one we recommend using.

If you really do want to use the firebase client-side SDK instead of firebase-admin, you'll want to run npm install --save firebase in your functions/ directory. You should then have a line in your functions/package.json that looks a bit like this:

{
  ...
  "dependencies": {
    "firebase": "^3.7.2",
    ...
  },
  ...
}

answered Mar 16, 2017 at 22:59

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Shahood ul Hassan Over a year ago

In my case, following the procedure above, the package.json did get updated with firebase dependency but I'm still getting the error: error TS2307: Cannot find module 'firebase' or its corresponding type declarations when I run firebase deploy. Can you tell me how to fix it?

Prodigy · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-20 23:01:48Z

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Although this is coming late, but it's for those who might face the same issue. This worked for me. I added this to my package.json file in folder function.

 {
  "name": "functions",
  "description": "Cloud Functions for Firebase",
  "dependencies": {
    "firebase-admin": "~5.2.1",
    "firebase-functions": "^0.6.2",
    "mkdirp": "^0.5.1",
    "mkdirp-promise": "^4.0.0"
  },
  "private": true
}

Then run: npm install in folder function

answered Sep 20, 2017 at 23:01

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Prodigy Over a year ago

@jason I'm happy it does. :)

Kiran Kuyate · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-13 10:26:51Z

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Clean up node_modules,

rm -rf package-lock.json
rm -rf node_modules

Update functions/package.json file with latest or compatible versions of dependencies with your node version and run npm install from functions folder.

Try firebase deploy now. Should be good!

answered Apr 13, 2020 at 10:26

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fkvestak Over a year ago

forgetting to do a clean up first was the problem for me, thanks

Sagor60 · Accepted Answer · 2023-12-30 16:57:23Z

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In my case, some of the cached packages were installed with root permission. So when I tried to deploy with only npm run deploy , was not finding the packages.

sudo npm run deploy worked for me.

answered Dec 30, 2023 at 16:57

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Laxmipriya Dalai · Accepted Answer · 2023-09-15 05:48:37Z

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first you have to select command prompt terminal instead of power shell ,then install npm within functions then run command npm start .

answered Sep 15, 2023 at 5:48

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