I am writing a simple web app with firebase hosting and cloud functions. My functions are onCreate , onDelete and httpsServer. I wan't to test my app by running it locally. How can I do this since firebase serve only works with https function and hosting.
I have tried running firebase serve and firebase functions:shell at the same time on different bash terminals. This causes firebase functions:shell to fail.
The create function :
exports.created = functions.firestore.document('Books/{bookID}')
.onCreate((snapshot, context) => {
FUNCTION_BODY
});
The Delete Function :
exports.deleted = functions.firestore.document('Books/{bookID}')
.onDelete((snapshot, context) => {
FUNCTION_BODY
});
The https Function :
exports.app = functions.https.onRequest(app);
The error thrown from bash :
$ firebase functions:shell
i functions: Preparing to emulate functions.
Warning: You're using Node.js v10.13.0 but Google Cloud Functions only supports v6.11.5.
! functions: Failed to emulate created
! functions: Failed to emulate deleted
! functions: Failed to emulate app
i functions: No functions to emulate.
No functions emulated.
Output from second bash :
i functions: Preparing to emulate functions.
Warning: You're using Node.js v10.13.0 but Google Cloud Functions only supports v6.11.5.
i hosting: Serving hosting files from: public
+ hosting: Local server: http://localhost:5000
info: initalised
info: rendering home...
+ functions: app: http://localhost:5001/book-shelf-be347/us-central1/app
info: Worker for app closed due to file changes.
Note: These are separate bash terminals running at the same time on the same machine.
I did some digging through the firebase documentation and could not find any solution. This is probably because there is no official tools that let you do this. So I finally solved the problem by running the hosting using nodemon and then using
firebase serve --functions
This solved the problem of using same port since it is handled by nodemon.
Hope firebase will provide new tools in the future.