Cloud Functions Emulator can't get default credentials - google-cloud-datastore

I'm trying to test my cloud function locally, and using the Functions emulator has been fine until I tried adding Datastore to my project. Now whenever I start the emulator, deploy, and call the function with my test data via --file=test.json, i get an error from my datastore promise
error: (node:35048) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 2): Error: Could not load the default credentials. Browse to https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/application-default-credentials for more information.
the only problem with this is that i've tried it multiple times, both with beta and normal auth modules, ie:
gcloud beta auth application-default login
and
gcloud auth application-default login
they both say they are successful but my Functions emulator still fails no matter what.
Datastore version ^1.1.0 & Google Cloud SDK 170.0.1, beta 2017.03.24

I ran into the same problem. a workaround is to set process.env.GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS = "path to json file";
However, you cant deploy the function like that, a better solution would be nice.

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GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS for dummy Firebase project

I'm learning to set up Firebase Emulators correctly to work on my projects and I came up with a problem. I can setup the emulators and make them work locally, however, when trying to access firestore it seems to try to access the real Firestore Instance instead of the emulator.
Right now I'm initializing the app like this (in Cloud Functions)
admin.initializeApp();
const db = admin.firestore();
But when I'm running a function I'm getting:
Failed to initialize and load triggers. This shouldn't happen: Failed to read credentials from file GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS.json: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS.json'
The thing is that if I use the credentials I generated for my project it will work with the real Firestore instance instead of the emulator.
How should I make credentials for my emulated services?
If you are using Firebase Functions emulator as well then Admin SDK will connect to all the running emulators e.g. if only Auth emulator is running then it'll use the emulator and connect to production for other services like Firestore. You can explicitly set the FIRESTORE_EMULATOR_HOST environment variable and Admin SDKs will use the emulator then.
Checkout the documentation for more information.

Firebase functions emulator requesting external network resource: computeMetadata

I have the firebase emulator running in a docker container locally for testing. The emulator includes everything I'm using for my app (firestore, auth, functions, storage) so that I can develop and test independently of the production environment.
However, I'm getting these warnings which are making me nervous:
functions: Beginning execution of "myFunction"
⚠ External network resource requested!
- URL: "http://---.---.---.---/computeMetadata/v1/instance"
- Be careful, this may be a production service.
I don't know what that URL is? Does it mean I've misconfigured something somewhere?
I'm also getting these warnings:
⚠ emulators: You are not currently authenticated so some features may not work correctly. Please run firebase login to authenticate the CLI.
⚠ functions: You are not signed in to the Firebase CLI. If you have authorized this machine using gcloud application-default credentials those may be discovered and used to access production services.
⚠ functions: Unable to fetch project Admin SDK configuration, Admin SDK behavior in Cloud Functions emulator may be incorrect.
But I don't think I want to authenticate, right? I don't want to touch anything to do with the live project on production while testing locally. Can I safely ignore these, or is there a good reason to authenticate?
The warnings are indicative that there had some issues while initialization during the setup for emulators .
Make sure that the emulator is installed by the following command: firebase setup:emulators:firestore, for this you can refer Documentation.
Deploy your function in the firebase in order to get recognized. you can refer to the Documentation using firebase deploy --only functions
Also to be sure please check your Firebase json and see if the local host is configured and not the production host,just to be sure.
For further reference you can follow up the stackoverflow thread Docker authentication issueand Firestore emulatorwhere a similar issue has been raised by other users which might be helpful.

What causes typescript compile error when deploying

I roughly following this tutorial to make a cloud function with typescript. It works fine in development, but when I try to deploy it (firebase deploy --only functions), I get A LOT of typescript errors. I have no idea why. It works in dev, why can't I push the same set up to Firebase?
Follow the below steps for a successful cloud functions deployment:
After you have created a Firebase project using this step, install
the Firebase CLI using : npm install -g firebase-tools.
Run firebase login to log in via the browser and authenticate the
firebase tool.
Run firebase init firestore
Run firebase init functions
When you run firebase init functions, there will be prompts, 1st
prompt : “What language would you like to use to write Cloud
Functions?” -> Choose Typescript. 2nd prompt : Do you want to use
ESlint to catch probable bugs and enforce style (y/n)? -> Choose n.
By selecting no you will be saving yourself from the typescript
compile errors.
Once initialization is complete, uncomment the sample in index.ts and
run npm run serve to see a "Hello World" function in action. Once you
can see the output in Firebase emulator, you will know the functions
executed properly.
Now, before you deploy the functions, assign the Cloud Functions
Invoker, Cloud Functions Admin and Cloud Functions Developer role to
project-id#appspot.gserviceaccount.com
Now run firebase deploy –only functions. The deployment will be
successful but the browser might show 403 errors ( Client does not
have permission..) For that, select your cloud function (check box)
click "Add members" under the Permissions tab in the right side,
enter "allUsers" under "New members", select Role as Cloud Functions -> Cloud Functions Invoker and then save the configuration.
If you do not want to give public access to your cloud functions, you
can set up authentication, by skipping the previous step. In Cloud
Shell, run gcloud auth print-identity-token. This outputs a token
which you will be authenticating your cloud function with. Now
provide authentication credentials in your request as a
Google-generated ID token stored in an Authorization header with this
command :
curl https://REGION-PROJECT_ID.cloudfunctions.net/FUNCTION_NAME \ -H "Authorization: bearer $(gcloud auth print-identity-token)"

Unable to call Firebase function from React.js application

I have a React.js application powered by a number of Firebase functions and real time database standing behind them. It has been working without any issue for the past 2-3 months and now I am getting a warning on the functions logs which says that:
#firebase/database: FIREBASE WARNING: {"code":"app/invalid-credential","message":"Credential implementation provided to initializeApp() via the \"credential\" property failed to fetch a valid Google OAuth2 access token with the following error: \"Failed to parse access token response: Error: Server responded with status 404.\"."}
The way I initialize firebase from my React.js application looks like this:
I have double-checked everything standing behind process.env and it seems to be as expected. The website written in React.js in hosted under the Firebase hosting.
And this is how Firebase functions connect to Admin SDK:
I am not sure what would be the issue here. Nothing has changes in the code base from our side. Not sure if Firebase changed something internally that we need to consider.
What solved the issue for me was to go to the google cloud console (where Firebase functions are also available). Then I opened one of the failing cloud functions and I navigated to
My_Function_Name/Edit/RUNTIME, BUILD AND CONNECTIONS SETTINGS/RUNTIME SERVICE ACCOUNT/
And then I noticed there that for all of my functions it was selected App Engine Default Service Account instead of Firebase Admin SDK. I never explicitly set the runtime to this option. So, when I brought it back to Firebase Admin SDK the error was gone I was able to use the application once again.

Firebase CLI is not recognizing my project

Why can't anything be easy? I am trying to add push notifications from Firebase Cloud Messaging. When I run firebase init I get the following:
How do I get this to work? I have tried all the solutions I have read here but none of them have worked.
The CLI is recognizing your project, but the initialization is failing due to an error with Cloud Storage for Firebase.
Try going to the Storage section within your Firebase Console (here) and initialize Cloud Storage for Firebase first.
After you've chosen a location for your bucket try running your command again.

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