Function deployment fails with npm workspaces/nx - Error: spawn ./node_modules/.bin/firebase-functions ENOENT

[rahuld600]

[REQUIRED] Environment info

firebase-tools: 11.8.0 (latest release)

Platform: : macOS

[REQUIRED] Test case

If I make a function on the index.js file, and then I try to deploy using:
firebase deploy --only functions:nameOfYourFunction
I get an Unexpected Error at the end.

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

Using npm or whatever package manager you prefer, run these on your terminal,

npm install -g firebase-tools
firebase login
firebase init functions

Now under the functions folder, make sure you have installed node modules using npm install,
and finally you create a basic function you like on index.js after you are done importing stuffs, for example:

const functions = require('firebase-functions');
const admin = require('firebase-admin');
admin.initializeApp();

exports.yourFunctionName = functions.https.onRequest(async(req,res)=>{
functions.logger.log(res.body); //just for an example.
})

Now when you try to do:

firebase deploy --only functions:yourFunctionName

You'll see this error message in the end:

[debug] [2022-09-05T11:21:08.962Z] Building nodejs source
[debug] [2022-09-05T11:21:08.963Z] Could not find functions.yaml. Must use http discovery
[debug] [2022-09-05T11:21:08.972Z] Error: spawn ./node_modules/.bin/firebase-functions ENOENT
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:283:19)
at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:476:16)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)
[error]
[error] Error: An unexpected error has occurred.
[debug] [2022-09-05T11:21:09.063Z] Serving at port 9005

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

Expected behaviour is that the function gets deployed successfully without any error.

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

Actual behaviour is that function normally get's deployed successfully and just after this update, this issue came into play.

[rahuld600]

I could fix this issue just by downgrading the version of firebase tools to v10.0.0 using:
npm install -g firebase-tools@10.0.0

[rahuld600]

Since there might be something wrong with the new v11.8.0, so It would be really awesome if the engineers took a look at what's up with the latest release...so I am keeping this issue open.

[taeold]

Thanks for filing the issue @rahuld600!

QQ1 - what tooling are you using for package management (yarn? npm)? Are you usign yarn/npm workspaces?
QQ2 - have you run npm i before deploying your function?

[rahuld600]

@taeold Hello sir,
First of all, thank you for checking out!
QQ1 - I am using npm for package management.
QQ2 - Yes sir! I ran npm install before deploying.

[vevepeter]

Thanks for filing the issue @[removed to avoid tagging]!

QQ1 - what tooling are you using for package management (yarn? npm)? Are you usign yarn/npm workspaces? QQ2 - have you run npm i before deploying your function?

Hey. If I may, what if they weren't using npm but yarn and yarn workspaces? We seem to be having the same issue, only with yarn workspaces and for firebase-tools v11.15.0.

Would it be better if I created a new issue for this for full details, or is this fine? Here are some of the other relevant(?) packages and versions:
"firebase": "9.12.1"
"firebase-admin": "^11.2.0"
"firebase-functions": "4.0.1"