Firebase modular (v9) incompatible with Expo

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I'm using Expo v42.0.1 and trying to install Firebase v9.0.2 and am unable to do so.

Issue

From running expo install firebase, firebase version 8.2.3 is installed. When changing the package.json to use firebase version 9.0.2, I get an error when running the app:

"firebase" is added as a dependency in your project's package.json but it doesn't seem to be installed. Please run "yarn" or "npm install" to fix this issue.

What I've tried

  1. Running yarn / npm install
  2. Running expo install firebase@9.0.2 (which ends up just downloading 8.2.3)

Has anyone seen this before or know why it is happening? I believe it is because Expo v42 is not yet compatible with the modular version of firebase (v9).

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You are correct.

Has anyone seen this before or know why it is happening? I believe it is because Expo v42 is not yet compatible with the modular version of firebase (v9).

But you can make it work with using it like this in you package.json:

"@firebase": "^9.0.2",

Discussion about this: "firebase" is added as a dependency in your project's package.json but it doesn't seem to be installed

I have used this solution in 2 projects. 1 works perfectly but in another I faced issued where version firebase@9.0.0-beta.7 works perfectly but in version firebase@9.0.2 everything but Firestore works
More about it here: Expo + firebase@9.0.1/9.0.0: @firebase/firestore:, Firestore (9.0.0): Could not reach Cloud Firestore backend

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