I have made my React Native App with Expo and firebase and used realtime database in that.
Suddenly I started getting app crashes from the users and got to know that randomly users are getting error "Cannot read property 'sendRequest' of null" and app crashes and source is firebase.
I was using Firebase Realtime Database for a long time and this problem was occuring in the last 3 months. I have tried solving everything Google Searched, Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, reading documentations beleive me everything and my startup is dependent on this.
Error occur when I export updateOnFirebase, createOnFirebase etc and use it in another files.
This error dont occur while I am in development mode, just occurs when I am in production mode after publishing app to Google Play Store ( presumably when internet is slightly weak )
I have made these kind of functions and exported them and used them in my entire app
Firebase version "firebase": "^9.23.0"
import { initializeApp } from "firebase/app";
import { getStorage } from "firebase/storage";
import { getDatabase } from "firebase/database";
import { ref, push, onValue, set, update, get, remove } from "firebase/database";
// Initialize Firebase, Done this way to not initialzie multiple times
const firebaseApp = initializeApp(firebaseConfig);
// Initializing Firebase services
export const db = getDatabase(firebaseApp);
// export const updateOnFirebase = async ({ updates }) => {
// try {
// await update(ref(db), updates);
// } catch (error) {
// handleError(error, "Error in updateOnFirebase", updates);
// }
// };
Updates I have found similar random bugs here which are very very related in Randomness
All of these are Random and many predictions are there but no exact reproducible way unfortunately