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

2017-03-22 edit: google just announced firebase cloud functions, which is a much better way to do this. Cloud functions work just like lambda, and can trigger from firebase events.

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Here's my solution using the REST api (so you don't need to require anything):

var https = require('https');
var firebaseHost = "yourapp.firebaseio.com";
function fbGet(key){
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    var options = {
      hostname: firebaseHost,
      port: 443,
      path: key + ".json",
      method: 'GET'
    };
    var req = https.request(options, function (res) {
      res.setEncoding('utf8');
      var body = '';
      res.on('data', function(chunk) {
        body += chunk;
      });
      res.on('end', function() {
        resolve(JSON.parse(body))
      });
    });
    req.end();
    req.on('error', reject);
  });
}

function fbPut(key, value){
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    var options = {
      hostname: firebaseHost,
      port: 443,
      path: key + ".json",
      method: 'PUT'
    };

    var req = https.request(options, function (res) {
      console.log("request made")
      res.setEncoding('utf8');
      var body = '';
      res.on('data', function(chunk) {
        body += chunk;
      });
      res.on('end', function() {
        resolve(body)
      });
    });
    req.end(JSON.stringify(value));
    req.on('error', reject);
  });
}

You can use it like this:

fbPut("/foo/bar", "lol").then(res => {
  console.log("wrote data")
})

And then:

fbGet("/foo/bar").then(data => {
  console.log(data); // prints "lol"
}).catch(e => {
  console.log("error saving to firebase: ");
  console.log(e);
})

Answer 2

To safely use firebase npm package (version 3.3.0) in AWS Lambda (Nodejs 4.3), Please do the following:

'use strict';

var firebase = require("firebase");

exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => {
    context.callbackWaitsForEmptyEventLoop = false;  //<---Important

    var config = {
        apiKey: "<<apikey>>",
        authDomain: "<<app_id>>.firebaseapp.com",
        databaseURL: "https://<<app_id>>.firebaseio.com",
        storageBucket: "<<app_id>>.appspot.com",
    };

    if(firebase.apps.length == 0) {   // <---Important!!! In lambda, it will cause double initialization.
        firebase.initializeApp(config);
    }

    ...
    <Your Logic here...>
    ...
};

Answer 3

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: <YOUR FIREBASE URL>
    });

  }


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

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

};

Answer 4

Another alternative if you're using a node-based development setup is to use the node-lambda package from here. Essentially it provides wrappers to set up, test and deploy to lambda. node-lambda deploy will package up any modules you've installed (e.g. with npm i --save firebase) and make sure they're available on Lambda itself. I've found it really helpful for managing external modules.

Answer 5

I solved my problem by using firebase REST api

var https = require('https');

exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {

    var body = JSON.stringify({
        foo: "bar"
    })

   var https = require('https');

var options = {
  host: 'project-XXXXX.firebaseio.com',
  port: 443,
  path: '/.json',
  method: 'POST'
};

var req = https.request(options, function(res) {
  console.log(res.statusCode);
  res.on('data', function(d) {
    process.stdout.write(d);
  });
});
req.end(body);

req.on('error', function(e) {
  console.error(e);
});

    callback(null, "some success message");

}

Answer 6

After trying a few things, this seems to work for me (v 3.10.8) :

for(var i=0;i<5;i++)
{

    var firebase = require('firebase');
    var config = {
        apiKey: "",
        authDomain: "",
        databaseURL: "",
        storageBucket: "",
        messagingSenderId: ""
      };
        if(firebase.apps)
        if(firebase.apps.length==0)
      firebase.initializeApp(config)

        firebase.database().ref().child("test").once('value').
          then(function(snapshot) {
            console.log(snapshot.val());

                                 });

  }