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The clean way is to use the Dynamic Import as the documentation said: Making a component SSR compatible
The way to get around this is to use a dynamic import for your component, from within the onMount function (which is only called on the client), so that your import code is never called on the server.
So here for example we want to import the core of firebase and the authentication package too.
<script>
let firebase;
onMount(async () => {
const module = await import("firebase/app");
await import("firebase/auth");
firebase = module.default;
firebase.initializeApp(firebaseConfig);
});
<script>
And now you can use firebase object as you can, for example we want to login with email and password:
let email;
let password;
async function login() {
try {
let result = await firebase.auth().signInWithEmailAndPassword(
email,
password
);
console.log(result.user);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error.code, error.message);
}
}
So I have spent too much time on this. There isn't really a more elegant solution than onMOunt.
However, I did realize that sapper really should be used for it's SSR capabilities. And I wrote an article about how to get set up on Firebase with Sapper SSR and Cloud Functions:
https://dev.to/eckhardtd/how-to-host-a-sapper-js-ssr-app-on-firebase-hmb
Another solution to original question is to put the Firebase CDN's in the global scope via the src/template.html
file.
<body>
<!-- The application will be rendered inside this element,
because `app/client.js` references it -->
<div id='sapper'>%sapper.html%</div>
<!-- Sapper creates a <script> tag containing `app/client.js`
and anything else it needs to hydrate the app and
initialise the router -->
%sapper.scripts%
<!-- Insert these scripts at the bottom of the HTML, but before you use any Firebase services -->
<!-- Firebase App (the core Firebase SDK) is always required and must be listed first -->
<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/6.0.4/firebase-app.js"></script>
<!-- Add Firebase products that you want to use -->
<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/6.0.4/firebase-auth.js"></script>
<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/6.0.4/firebase-firestore.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
and in the component:
<script>
import { onMount } from 'svelte';
let database, authentication;
onMount(() => {
database = firebase.firestore();
authentication = firebase.auth();
});
const authHandler = () => {
if (process.browser) {
authentication
.createUserWithEmailAndPassword()
.catch(e => console.error(e));
}
}
</script>
<button on:click={authHandler}>Sign up</button>
I was able to import firebase using ES6. If you are using rollup you need to consfigure namedExports in commonjs plugin:
//--- rollup.config.js ---
...
commonjs({
namedExports: {
// left-hand side can be an absolute path, a path
// relative to the current directory, or the name
// of a module in node_modules
'node_modules/idb/build/idb.js': ['openDb'],
'node_modules/firebase/dist/index.cjs.js': ['initializeApp', 'firestore'],
},
}),
The you can use it like this:
//--- db.js ---
import * as firebase from 'firebase';
import 'firebase/database';
import { firebaseConfig } from '../config'; //<-- Firebase initialization config json
// Initialize Firebase
firebase.initializeApp(firebaseConfig);
export { firebase };
// Initialize db
export const db = firebase.firestore();
and maybe use it in a service like such:
// --- userService.js ----
import { db } from './common';
const usersCol = db.collection('users');
export default {
async login(username, password) {
const userDoc = await usersCol.doc(username).get();
const user = userDoc.data();
if (user && user.password === password) {
return user;
}
return null;
},
};
EDITED Full rollup config
/* eslint-disable global-require */
import resolve from 'rollup-plugin-node-resolve';
import replace from 'rollup-plugin-replace';
import commonjs from 'rollup-plugin-commonjs';
import svelte from 'rollup-plugin-svelte';
import babel from 'rollup-plugin-babel';
import { terser } from 'rollup-plugin-terser';
import config from 'sapper/config/rollup';
import { sass } from 'svelte-preprocess-sass';
import pkg from './package.json';
const mode = process.env.NODE_ENV;
const dev = mode === 'development';
const legacy = !!process.env.SAPPER_LEGACY_BUILD;
// eslint-disable-next-line no-shadow
const onwarn = (warning, onwarn) =>
(warning.code === 'CIRCULAR_DEPENDENCY' && warning.message.includes('/@sapper/')) || onwarn(warning);
export default {
client: {
input: config.client.input(),
output: config.client.output(),
plugins: [
replace({
'process.browser': true,
'process.env.NODE_ENV': JSON.stringify(mode),
}),
svelte({
dev,
hydratable: true,
emitCss: true,
preprocess: {
style: sass(),
},
}),
resolve({
browser: true,
}),
commonjs({
namedExports: {
// left-hand side can be an absolute path, a path
// relative to the current directory, or the name
// of a module in node_modules
'node_modules/idb/build/idb.js': ['openDb'],
'node_modules/firebase/dist/index.cjs.js': ['initializeApp', 'firestore'],
},
}),
legacy &&
babel({
extensions: ['.js', '.mjs', '.html', '.svelte'],
runtimeHelpers: true,
exclude: ['node_modules/@babel/**'],
presets: [
[
'@babel/preset-env',
{
targets: '> 0.25%, not dead',
},
],
],
plugins: [
'@babel/plugin-syntax-dynamic-import',
[
'@babel/plugin-transform-runtime',
{
useESModules: true,
},
],
],
}),
!dev &&
terser({
module: true,
}),
],
onwarn,
},
server: {
input: config.server.input(),
output: config.server.output(),
plugins: [
replace({
'process.browser': false,
'process.env.NODE_ENV': JSON.stringify(mode),
}),
svelte({
generate: 'ssr',
dev,
}),
resolve(),
commonjs(),
],
external: Object.keys(pkg.dependencies).concat(require('module').builtinModules || Object.keys(process.binding('natives'))),
onwarn,
},
serviceworker: {
input: config.serviceworker.input(),
output: config.serviceworker.output(),
plugins: [
resolve(),
replace({
'process.browser': true,
'process.env.NODE_ENV': JSON.stringify(mode),
}),
commonjs(),
!dev && terser(),
],
onwarn,
},
};