Unable to deploy firebase function

Question

Node.js command prompt is simply ignoring this function, while the other functions are getting deployed, I am not getting any error either.

var database = admin.database();
var postsRef = database.ref("/posts");

postsRef.on('child_added', addOrUpdateIndexRecord);

function addOrUpdateIndexRecord(dataSnapshot) {
  // Get Firebase object
  var firebaseObject = dataSnapshot.val();
  // Specify Algolia's objectID using the Firebase object key
  firebaseObject.objectID = dataSnapshot.key;
  // Add or update object
  index.saveObject(firebaseObject, function(err, content) {
    if (err) {
      throw err;
    }
    console.log('Firebase object indexed in Algolia', firebaseObject.objectID);
  });
}

Answer 1

If it's a database trigger function, then the syntax you are using is not correct. Try doing this way:

exports.updateposts = functions.database.ref("posts/")
.onWrite(event => {

  //Do whatever you want to do with trigger

});