[v13.0.0 Blocker] Refactor `functions:shell` to not use request

[sadhon]

I am trying to run "npm install -g firebase-tools" command on linux OS but it gives me the above error every time.On the other hand when I try to run "npx create-react-app app-name" command, it works fine. I searched the solution on the internet but did not find any acceptable solution. Is there any way to fix this problem.

[samtstern]

@sadhon thanks for reporting this! The request module is one of the most popular libraries in the whole ecosystem so the deprecation has hit almost everyone, including us.

@bkendall is already working on removing request from firebase-tools.

Right now you do not need to worry about this, it's not a security vulnerability and we expect it to be fixed in a future version.

[bogacg]

Today firebase-tools@8.7.0 installation is aborted due to this issue.

[samtstern]

@bogacg can you show logs from an aborted install?

[bogacg]

@samtstern I re-executed global install command and sorry, that one is a WARN, problem is @sindresorhus%2fis

npm -g install firebase-tools@8.7.0
npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm WARN deprecated har-validator@5.1.5: this library is no longer supported
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@~2.1.2 (node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\chokidar\node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.3: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})

npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@sindresorhus%2fis - Not found
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404  '@sindresorhus/is@^0.14.0' is not in the npm registry.
npm ERR! 404 You should bug the author to publish it (or use the name yourself!)
npm ERR! 404 It was specified as a dependency of 'got'
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git url.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:

You need full log?

[samtstern]

That's a global ongoing npm issue today, please see:
https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/cksjqc1w11v5

[AkhileshHN]

The issue is still not resolved
I'm tried almost 100 times still same error unable to install firebase-tools

[bkendall]

You may need to run npm cache clean to clear out any bad URLs you an into during the outage (untested, but that would be what I would do)

[bogacg]

As of npm@5, 
the npm cache self-heals from corruption issues and data extracted from the cache is guaranteed to be valid.
If you want to make sure everything is consistent, use 'npm cache verify' instead.

...after npm cache verify I was able to install 👍

[67joseph]

Yes thanks bogacg npm cache verify worked well

[manojmadhu]

Yes, its worked after npm cache verify . Thank you very much.