'esbuild' is not recognized as an internal or external command

[REQUIRED] Environment info

firebase-tools: 13.15.1

Platform: Windows

[REQUIRED] Test case

I am using the Web Frameworks Integrate for working with Next.js.

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

I executed the firebase deploy command.

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

The deployment process should not have any errors, but I found an error marked in red.

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

'esbuild' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Failed to get global esbuild version: Error: Command failed: esbuild --version
'esbuild' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

To resolve the above error, I ran the command npm install -g esbuild, which successfully fixed the issue.

Since the Firebase documentation does not mention installing esbuild, I believe esbuild should be bundled with the firebase-tools installation.

In my opinion, this error is likely linked to the second point outlined in the release notes below.

https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/releases/tag/v13.15.1

[aalej]

Hey @jongcodes, thanks for reporting this and for sharing your observations. I was able to reproduce the behavior you mentioned. Sharing the mcve here. I’ll raise this to our team, and mark this issue as reproducible.

Also, from what I can tell, deployments are still successful even if this error message is shown. Just to verify, is this also similar to what you observed, or does the error block deployments?

[leoortizz]

Hey @jongcodes, a fix was implemented in #7555 and will be available in the next CLI release