TypeError: e.addEventListener is not a function - Firestore (Expo)

[tomadimitrie]

[REQUIRED] Describe your environment

• Operating System version: macOS 10.15.3
• Browser version: - (Expo SDK 37)
• Firebase SDK version: 7.14.2
• Firebase Product: Firestore

[REQUIRED] Describe the problem

Running any query to Firestore throws this error:

[Unhandled promise rejection: TypeError: e.addEventListener is not a function. (In 'e.addEventListener("visibilitychange", this.ah)', 'e.addEventListener' is undefined)]

Steps to reproduce:

Initialize Firebase, then run any query.

Relevant Code:

static subscribeToAvailableRides(callback: (rides: Ride[]) => void) {
    return firebase
      .firestore()
      .collection("rides")
      .where("driver.id", "==", null)
      .onSnapshot((docs) => {
        callback(
          docs.docs.map(doc => doc.data())
        );
      });
  }

[snownoop]

Having same issue. Did not have solution right now.
There is also same topic on stackoverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61429599/error-cloud-firestore-addeventlistener-is-not-a-function-react-native-firestor

Any ideas ?

[tomadimitrie]

Having same issue. Did not have solution right now.

There is also same topic on stackoverflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61429599/error-cloud-firestore-addeventlistener-is-not-a-function-react-native-firestor

Any ideas ?

I am using Expo so I ran expo install firebase and it installed 7.9.0 and the error was gone

[schmidt-sebastian]

@tomadimitrie Thanks for this report. We added a window. addEventListener() call that is executed when window is defined. I will add a check to only call addEventListener when it window.addEventListener exists.

[gwendall]

@tomadimitrie in the meantime, mock it by putting something like window.addEventListener = x => x at the top level of your code

[tomadimitrie]

@gwendall thank you. One question, is the last version of the Firebase JS SDK fully compatible with Expo? For some reason running expo install firebase installs version 7.9.0 and I don't know whether to stick with that or upgrade to the latest version

[edi]

@tomadimitrie that's not something firebase contributors can answer. Look for @EvanBacon on the expo-cli repo.

Regards!

[tomadimitrie]

@edi thanks!

[snownoop]

installing 7.9.0 helped me. Will check later if it can work with higher versions of firebase.
I also did cache clean, and watchman delete all. Then restart and all is working fine.

[schmidt-sebastian]

This will be fixed in our release next week. We are not doing any releases this week. Please either downgrade to 7.14.1 or define window.addEventListener.

[BrianGuerra2019]

I have tried several versions and none of them works, when downloading some previous version, the error disappears but the connection to firebase stops working, even with version 7.14.1

[edi]

This will be fixed in our release next week. We are not doing any releases this week. Please either downgrade to 7.14.1 or define window.addEventListener.

RN/Expo users will have to define global.addEventListener.