Firebase deploy errors starting with non-zero exit code (space in project path)

I was having issues with firebase deploy command recently. After firebase deploy command all others were being deployed except firebase (storage, database etc) So I decided to reinstall firebase to fix this situation but after reinstall my problem got bigger. Now none of them are deployed with the following error:

i deploying database, functions
Running command: npm --prefix $RESOURCE_DIR run lint
npm ERR! path C:\Users\faruk\Google Drive\Android\firebase\1\$RESOURCE_DIR\package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -4058
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\faruk\Google Drive\Android\firebase\1\$RESOURCE_DIR\package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\faruk\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-01-24T18_21_34_878Z-debug.log

Error: functions predeploy error: Command terminated with non-zero exit code4294963238

After a bit research, I saw some topics about this which advice to change

$RESOURCE_DIR to %RESOURCE_DIR%

in windows systems (I am using windows 10 btw). So, I edited my firebase.json file which is in one upper level of my functions folder. like this. (I don't know if this is the right file that I should edit)

  "database": {
    "rules": "database.rules.json"
  },
  "functions": {
    "predeploy": [
      "npm --prefix %RESOURCE_DIR% run lint"
    ]
  }
}

but after this edit, I started to get another error message like this.

i  deploying database, functions
Running command: npm --prefix %RESOURCE_DIR% run lint

Usage: npm <command>

where <command> is one of:
    access, adduser, bin, bugs, c, cache, completion, config,
    ddp, dedupe, deprecate, dist-tag, docs, doctor, edit,
    explore, get, help, help-search, i, init, install,
    install-test, it, link, list, ln, login, logout, ls,
    outdated, owner, pack, ping, prefix, profile, prune,
    publish, rb, rebuild, repo, restart, root, run, run-script,
    s, se, search, set, shrinkwrap, star, stars, start, stop, t,
    team, test, token, tst, un, uninstall, unpublish, unstar,
    up, update, v, version, view, whoami

npm <command> -h     quick help on <command>
npm -l           display full usage info
npm help <term>  search for help on <term>
npm help npm     involved overview

Specify configs in the ini-formatted file:
    C:\Users\faruk\.npmrc
or on the command line via: npm <command> --key value
Config info can be viewed via: npm help config

[email protected] C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm

Error: functions predeploy error: Command terminated with non-zero exit code1

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

The error stems from the fact that you have a space somewhere in the path of your project ("Google Drive"):

C:\Users\faruk\Google Drive\Android\firebase\1\$RESOURCE_DIR\package.json

Unfortunately, this is confusing the npm command line, and it's taking that as two arguments separated by that space.

Normally, I would expect to be able to place quotes around the whole thing to keep the space from being interpreted that way. So I tried this:

"predeploy": [
  "npm --prefix \"%RESOURCE_DIR%\" run lint"
]

And it works for me.

I'll follow up with the Firebase team internally about this issue, as well as the fact that changes need to be made for Windows.

What happens actually is that in Windows, firebase.json contains the following by default:

"predeploy": [
  "npm --prefix \"$RESOURCE_DIR\" run lint"
]

Modify it to:

"predeploy": [
  "npm --prefix \"%RESOURCE_DIR%\" run lint"
]

It worked for me, hope it works for you.

"predeploy": [ "npm --prefix \"$RESOURCE_DIR\" run lint" ]

I remove that on firebase.json finally, it started to deploy again

This what work for me after change $RESOURCE_DIR to %RESOURCE_DIR% in firebase.json

{
  "functions": {
    "predeploy": [
      "npm --prefix \"%RESOURCE_DIR%\" run lint",
      "npm --prefix \"%RESOURCE_DIR%\" run build"
    ]
  }
}

For me, none of the above worked. Initially, on a fresh firebase-function install, I was getting error on non-zero exit code2. so I removed the functions directory, re-installed, but on the functions directory configuration step, I chose to say "no" to the add-lint step.

once I chose to not include lint, I got error non-zero exit code1.

from there checked my firebase.json file and looked at the predeploy script. because the deployment process was failing at this point, it was where I started. my firebase.json file looked like this:

{
    "functions": {
        "predeploy": [ "npm --prefix \"$RESOURCE_DIR\" run lint" ]
    }
}

for some reason I intuitively thought to remove the lint in the predeploy script. this fixed everything. Im on MacOS by the way..