npm ERR! when installing firebase tools in gitlab CI/CD - node.js

Question

I am trying to integrate my Ionic app with Angular into Gitlab CI/CD.
When running the jobs, my deploy job fails every time.
The pipeline runs until the command - npm config set unsafe-perm true
without any problems.
Then I want to install the firebase tools with - npm i -g firebase-tools. After that many things happen and a few thousand lines later, there is always this error message.
2305 npm timing command:i Completed in 24044ms
2306 npm ERR! code 12307npm ERR! path /root/.nvm/versions/node/v16.18.0/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/protobufjs
2308 npm ERR! command failed
2309 npm ERR! command sh -c -- node scripts/postinstall
2310 npm ERR! internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:638
2311 npm ERR! throw err;
2312 npm ERR! ^
2313 npm ERR!
2314 npm ERR! Error: Cannot find module '/root/.nvm/versions/node/v16.18.0/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/protobufjs/scripts/postinstall'
2315 npm ERR! at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
2316 npm ERR! at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
2317 npm ERR! at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:831:12)
2318 npm ERR! at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:283:19)
2319 npm ERR! at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:622:3)
2320 npm timing npm Completed in 24194ms
2321 npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
2322 npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2022-10-27T00_16_16_747Z-debug-0.log
2324 Cleaning up project directory and file based variables00:01
2326 ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1
Before the first jobs start, I use a workaround with nvm to install the Node version I use in the project.
stages:
- build
- deploy
default:
tags:
- nodejs
before_script:
- node --version
- curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.1/install.sh | bash
- export NVM_DIR="$(\[ -z "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME-}" \] && printf %s "${HOME}/.nvm" || printf %s "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/nvm")"
- \[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" \] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
- nvm ls-remote
- nvm install v16.18.0
- node --version
After that, a job runs that builds the webapp and runs a Lint test.
build-webapp:
stage: build
script:
- cd shareloc #enter the project path
- npm i -silent
- npm i #ionic/cli --silent
- npx ionic build --prod
- npm run lint
# - npm run run-e2e-tests
artifacts:
expire_in: 10 mins
paths:
- shareloc/www/
And finally, when a merge request is pushed to the master, a deploy should be run. We want to host our app on Firebase.
I have already found on the Internet that the command
npm config set unsafe-perm true
should help, however nothing has changed.
deploy-webapp:
stage: deploy
script:
- cd shareloc #enter the project path
- npm config set unsafe-perm true
# - npm install --unsafe-perm -g firebase-tools
- npm i -g firebase-tools
- npx firebase deploy --token $FIREBASE_TOKEN
only:
- master
My technology stack:
Ionic 6.20.3
Node 16.18.0
Firebase