Firebase deploy errors starting with non-zero exit code (space in project path)

Question

I was having issues with firebase deploy command recently. After firebase deploy command all others were being deployed except firebase (storage, database etc) So I decided to reinstall firebase to fix this situation but after reinstall my problem got bigger. Now none of them are deployed with the following error:

i deploying database, functions
Running command: npm --prefix $RESOURCE_DIR run lint
npm ERR! path C:\Users\faruk\Google Drive\Android\firebase\1\$RESOURCE_DIR\package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -4058
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\faruk\Google Drive\Android\firebase\1\$RESOURCE_DIR\package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\faruk\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-01-24T18_21_34_878Z-debug.log

Error: functions predeploy error: Command terminated with non-zero exit code4294963238

After a bit research, I saw some topics about this which advice to change

$RESOURCE_DIR to %RESOURCE_DIR%

in windows systems (I am using windows 10 btw). So, I edited my firebase.json file which is in one upper level of my functions folder. like this. (I don't know if this is the right file that I should edit)

  "database": {
    "rules": "database.rules.json"
  },
  "functions": {
    "predeploy": [
      "npm --prefix %RESOURCE_DIR% run lint"
    ]
  }
}

but after this edit, I started to get another error message like this.

i  deploying database, functions
Running command: npm --prefix %RESOURCE_DIR% run lint

Usage: npm <command>

where <command> is one of:
    access, adduser, bin, bugs, c, cache, completion, config,
    ddp, dedupe, deprecate, dist-tag, docs, doctor, edit,
    explore, get, help, help-search, i, init, install,
    install-test, it, link, list, ln, login, logout, ls,
    outdated, owner, pack, ping, prefix, profile, prune,
    publish, rb, rebuild, repo, restart, root, run, run-script,
    s, se, search, set, shrinkwrap, star, stars, start, stop, t,
    team, test, token, tst, un, uninstall, unpublish, unstar,
    up, update, v, version, view, whoami

npm <command> -h     quick help on <command>
npm -l           display full usage info
npm help <term>  search for help on <term>
npm help npm     involved overview

Specify configs in the ini-formatted file:
    C:\Users\faruk\.npmrc
or on the command line via: npm <command> --key value
Config info can be viewed via: npm help config

[email protected] C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm

Error: functions predeploy error: Command terminated with non-zero exit code1

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The error stems from the fact that you have a space somewhere in the path of your project ("Google Drive"):

C:\Users\faruk\Google Drive\Android\firebase\1\$RESOURCE_DIR\package.json

Unfortunately, this is confusing the npm command line, and it's taking that as two arguments separated by that space.

Normally, I would expect to be able to place quotes around the whole thing to keep the space from being interpreted that way. So I tried this:

"predeploy": [
  "npm --prefix \"%RESOURCE_DIR%\" run lint"
]

And it works for me.

I'll follow up with the Firebase team internally about this issue, as well as the fact that changes need to be made for Windows.