What is the Application Default Credentials story for alpha - no credential in ESM

[akauppi]

https://medium.com/google-cloud/firebase-separating-configuration-from-code-in-admin-sdk-d2bcd2e87de6

I found about ADC last week, and would like to try it out. However, firebase-admin 9.100.0-alpha.1 exports section does not have credentials.

What is the way to do the same with "alpha"? Is this going away - or the credentials just hasn't made it to this release, yet?

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It turns out I won't need this (since the context is using Admin SDK within Cloud Functions). This may be the reason for the current omission - one cannot use "alpha" within Cloud Functions, anyways.

[hiranya911]

All functions in the credentials namespace are also exposed from the firebase-admin/app entry point. For example:

https://modular-admin.web.app/reference/firebase-admin.app#applicationdefault

But typically, when you use ADC in environments like Cloud Functions you don't need them at all. You can just call initializeApp() without any arguments.