Doc Update: How to declare firestore in nodejs Typescript?

[Kayes-Islam]

The readme says:

With Typescript:

import * as geofirex from 'geofirex';
const geo = geofirex.init(firebase);

But where is firebase coming from? I have:

import * as admin from 'firebase-admin';
import * as geofirex from 'geofirex';
const app = admin.initializeApp();
//const geo = geofirex.init(app); // causing error, see below

When I do:
const geo = geofirex.init(app);
I get:

Argument of type 'App' is not assignable to parameter of type 'typeof firebase'.
Type 'App' is missing the following properties from type 'typeof firebase': registerVersion, setLogLevel, onLog, app, and 6 more.ts(2345)

How do I init geofirex in typescript for nodejs?

[skibaalex]

your app is not initialized correctly.
you need to provide a firebase config object

[Kayes-Islam]

@muc1 The config is optional. See here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/admin/setup#initialize-without-parameters

Nevertheless, however I initialise the app, with or without config, the problem I have is that I don't know how to initialise the geofirex.

[BrDrawolf]

@Kayes-Islam Yeah, is nothing related to the config, faced this same issue a couple of days ago deploying functions to firebase. The way I resolved it and works without problem is doing the require-way as is in the readme for the admin-sdk, like this in typescript:

import * as admin from 'firebase-admin';
import {GeoFireClient} from "geofirex";

admin.initializeApp();
const geo: GeoFireClient = require('geofirex').init(admin);

Hope it helps! 👌

[Kayes-Islam]

Thanks @BrDrawolf, your answer has solved this issue for me.

I still think it's an issue/improvement if we could use the typescript import without having to require(). I'll leave the issue open for this.