[BUG] firebase-tools@13 (latest) now requires Node 18 or Node 20 about action-hosting-deploy

[victorfu]

configure this option: https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/action-hosting-deploy#firebasetoolsversion-string

In my case, GitHub Actions workflow works with version 12.9.1 of Firebase Tools for node 16.

[anisabboud]

Try this in your .yml file to manually select Node 20:

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4  # https://github.com/actions/checkout
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4  # https://github.com/actions/setup-node
        with:
          node-version: 20
      - ...

[kefniark]

I can confirm the same issue here, deployment were still working yesterday and today it fails with same error.

Deploying to Firebase preview channel develop
/opt/hostedtoolcache/node/16.20.2/x64/bin/npx firebase-tools@latest hosting:channel:deploy develop --expires 30d --project **** --json
  npm WARN exec The following package was not found and will be installed: [email protected]
  npm WARN EBADENGINE Unsupported engine ***
  npm WARN EBADENGINE   package: '[email protected]',
  npm WARN EBADENGINE   required: *** node: '>=18.0.0 || >=20.0.0' ***,
  npm WARN EBADENGINE   current: *** node: 'v16.20.2', npm: '8.19.4'***
  npm WARN EBADENGINE ***
  Firebase CLI v13.0.0 is incompatible with Node.js v16.20.2 Please upgrade Node.js to version >=18.0.0 || >=20.0.0  

  The process '/opt/hostedtoolcache/node/16.20.2/x64/bin/npx' failed with exit code 1
  Retrying deploy with the --debug flag for better error output

Until yesterday, the same CI

Deploying to Firebase preview channel develop
/opt/hostedtoolcache/node/16.20.2/x64/bin/npx firebase-tools@latest hosting:channel:deploy develop --expires 30d --project *** --json
  npm WARN exec The following package was not found and will be installed: [email protected]
  ...
  "status": "success",

So purely based on the log, it looks like it's the firebase-tools update 12.9.1 -> 13.0.0 which cause some issues with this github-action still using node16.

I guess two methods:

• the easier would be to upgrade this action to node 18 or 20
• the other would be to pin dependencies major version (for the moment to [email protected]), to not run into these kind of issues when dependencies updates with breaking changes. The current npx firebase-tools@latest doesn't look like a good idea

[tiec7]

I am totally new to firebase, I created a very simple project in vue2, then i followed the instructions on the main site to add firebase with npm install firebase and I got this similar message.
I'm using windows 10 and node 20.10.0.

May you please help me, suggesting - if available - the simplest steps to make it work? I can't believe firebase is unusable with vue2.