Angular with SSR firebase bug

[vforv]

There is a bug with firebase@5.11.1

When install last version of firebase getting error on my server:

/dist/server.js:75602
if (self && 'firebase' in self) {
^
ReferenceError: self is not defined

With version 5.7.3 works fine.

I am using Angular 7 with server side rendering and @angular/fire": "^5.1.3" pkg as well.

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[Feiyang1]

Thanks for reporting the issue! We didn't consider SSR use case when adding the condition. We will fix it in the next release.

Can you please downgrade firebase to <= 5.10.0 as a workaround?

[amit-ahire]

/var/www/html/project-name/dist/server.js:102897
if (self && 'firebase' in self) {
^
ReferenceError: self is not defined

I'm also Facing the same issue after I updated the packages
Now I have angular v7.2.14, firebase v5.11.1 & @angular/fire v5.1.3
Earlier it was working perfectly

[mezzo9]

Why is this closed?
Will you please let us know if there have there been any solutions?
I tried the latest version, and all the other ones back to 5.0.0 and none of them work. the build:ssr works just fine, but serve:ssr throws the error mentioned above.

[Feiyang1]

Github automatically closed it when I mentioned it is fixed in #1757. Reopening it till it's released.

This check is only added in 5.11.0, so previous versions should work, or you are facing a different issue.

[mezzo9]

Thanks for your clarification.
You are correct in that this change is introduced in this version. When using other versions, I get different errors. which didn't make sense to open issues for those. if we can fix this one, then we are all happy :)

Is there a way I can use the fix in #1757 before release if it is going to take a while to release?
Thank you very much for your help.

[Feiyang1]

You can use npm install firebase@canary. We should have a release soon though.

[mezzo9]

Thank you very much.
After uninstalling the latest, and then installing the canary version, That error went away.
however, it was replaced by a new one:
Please note it builds fine, but when SSR app, this happens.

var major = parseInt(firebase_app__WEBPACK_IMPORTED_MODULE_6__["SDK_VERSION"].split('.')[0]);
^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'split' of undefined