Cannot get PubSub emulator to run in Docker using docker-compose - node.js

Question

I am trying to get PubSub emulator to run in a docker-compose project but I keep getting the error:
auth-service_1 | Error: Unable to detect a Project Id in the current environment.
auth-service_1 | To learn more about authentication and Google APIs, visit:
auth-service_1 | https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started
auth-service_1 | at /app/node_modules/google-auth-library/build/src/auth/googleauth.js:84:31
auth-service_1 | at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
I have added every environment variable that I could find on numerous GitHub issues threads but nothing seems to help.
Here is the docker-compose file:
version: "3"
services:
pubsub:
image: andrewrjones/google-pubsub-emulator:latest
environment:
- PUBSUB_PROJECT_ID=project-test
- PUBSUB_LISTEN_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0:8042
- PUBSUB_EMULATOR_HOST="localhost:8042"
- GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT="api-xx-dev"
- PUBSUB_PROJECT_ID="api-xx-dev"
- PROJECT_ID="api-xx-dev"
- GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/path/to/serviceAccount.json"
- GCLOUD_PROJECT="api-xx-dev"
ports:
- "8042:8042"
networks:
- main
auth-service:
build: ./auth
volumes:
- ./auth:/app
ports:
- 4000:8080
networks:
- main
user-service:
build: ./user
volumes:
- ./user:/app
ports:
- 4001:8081
networks:
- main
networks:
main:
Route calling PubSub:
import express = require("express");
import { Request, Response } from "express";
import admin from "firebase-admin";
const { PubSub } = require("#google-cloud/pubsub");
const serviceAccount = require("../serviceAccount.json");
admin.initializeApp({
credential: admin.credential.cert(serviceAccount),
});
const router = express.Router();
const pubsub = new PubSub();
const publishTopic = async (user: any, topic: any) => {
try {
const buffer = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(user));
return await pubsub.topic(topic).publish(buffer);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
};
router.post(
"/api/v2/create-user",
async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
try {
const { email, password } = req.body;
const newUser = await admin.auth().createUser({ email, password });
await publishTopic(newUser, "NEW_FIREBASE_USER_CREATED");
res.send(newUser);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
res.status(409).send({ errors: [{ message: error.message }] });
}
}
);
export { router as createUserRouter };
I recall that I had to log into google via the cli to get this error to go on my local machine.