Amazon Lambda to Firebase

Question

I get \'Cannot find module \'firebase\' when I try to run this in Lambda (Node.js 4.3)

var Firebase = require(\'firebase\');

Same thing hap

Answer 1

For me firebase-admin should do the trick. https://firebase.google.com/docs/admin/setup

Thanks for Josiah Choi for suggesting context.callbackWaitsForEmptyEventLoop though. So lambda doesn't need to initializeFirebase everytimes. My first run was really slow.

  var firebase = require('firebase-admin');
  module.exports.Test = (event, context, callback) => {

  context.callbackWaitsForEmptyEventLoop = false;  //<---Important

  if(firebase.apps.length == 0) {   // <---Important!!! In lambda, it will cause double initialization.
    firebase.initializeApp({
      credential: firebase.credential.cert("serviceAccount.json"),
      databaseURL: 
    });

  }


 firebase.database().ref('conversation').once('value').then(function(snapshot) {
    console.log (snapshot.val()) ;
   var bodyReturn = {
     input: snapshot.val()
   } ;

   callback(null,bodyReturn);
   context.succeed() ;
});

};