Async/Await on Google Cloud

Question

I'm trying to deploy a Webhook for Dialogflow in an Action-On-Google.

This Webhook is using Async/Await, so it needs NodeJS 8.x.

When I type "node --version" into my Google Cloud console (the one on cloud.google.com website), it shows me 8.5.0 as version of node.

But when I deploy the webhook script via "gcloud beta functions deploy", I get a "SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier" at the position of my script where the first "await" is used.

So is async/await disabled in the Google Cloud, even if it is using Node 8.5?

Answer 1

Google Cloud Functions (aka Firebase Functions) only supports node 6.11.5 (see https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/writing/ for details). Thus, you can only use language features supported up to that version of node.