Error when importing AngularFireDatabaseModule

Question

I'm trying to add angularfire database module to a new angular project but when i add the line :

import { AngularFireDatabaseModule } from '@angular/fire/compat/database';

i get this error :

Error: node_modules/@angular/fire/compat/database/interfaces.d.ts:47:18 - error TS2430: Interface 'DatabaseSnapshotExists<T>' incorrectly extends interface 'DataSnapshot'.
  Types of property 'forEach' are incompatible.
    Type '(action: (a: DatabaseSnapshot<T>) => boolean) => boolean' is not assignable to type '(action: (a: DataSnapshot & { key: string; }) => boolean | void) => boolean'.
      Types of parameters 'action' and 'action' are incompatible.
        Types of parameters 'a' and 'a' are incompatible.
          Type 'DatabaseSnapshot<T>' is not assignable to type 'DataSnapshot & { key: string; }'.
            Type 'DatabaseSnapshotExists<T>' is not assignable to type 'DataSnapshot & { key: string; }'.  
              Type 'DatabaseSnapshotExists<T>' is not assignable to type 'DataSnapshot'.
                Types of property 'forEach' are incompatible.
                  Type '(action: (a: DatabaseSnapshot<T>) => boolean) => boolean' is not assignable to type '(action: (a: DataSnapshot & { key: string; }) => boolean | void) => boolean'.
                    Types of parameters 'action' and 'action' are incompatible.
                      Types of parameters 'a' and 'a' are incompatible.
                        Type 'DatabaseSnapshot<T>' is not assignable to type 'DataSnapshot & { key: string; }'.
                          Type 'DatabaseSnapshotDoesNotExist<T>' is not assignable to type 'DataSnapshot & 
{ key: string; }'.
                            Type 'DatabaseSnapshotDoesNotExist<T>' is not assignable to type '{ key: string; }'.
                              Types of property 'key' are incompatible.
                                Type 'string | null' is not assignable to type 'string'.
                                  Type 'null' is not assignable to type 'string'.

47 export interface DatabaseSnapshotExists<T> extends firebase.database.DataSnapshot {
                    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Error: node_modules/@angular/fire/compat/database/interfaces.d.ts:52:18 - error TS2430: Interface 'DatabaseSnapshotDoesNotExist<T>' incorrectly extends interface 'DataSnapshot'.
  Types of property 'forEach' are incompatible.
    Type '(action: (a: DatabaseSnapshot<T>) => boolean) => boolean' is not assignable to type '(action: (a: DataSnapshot & { key: string; }) => boolean | void) => boolean'.
      Types of parameters 'action' and 'action' are incompatible.
        Types of parameters 'a' and 'a' are incompatible.
          Type 'DatabaseSnapshot<T>' is not assignable to type 'DataSnapshot & { key: string; }'.
            Type 'DatabaseSnapshotDoesNotExist<T>' is not assignable to type 'DataSnapshot & { key: string; }'.
              Type 'DatabaseSnapshotDoesNotExist<T>' is not assignable to type 'DataSnapshot'.
                Types of property 'forEach' are incompatible.
                  Type '(action: (a: DatabaseSnapshot<T>) => boolean) => boolean' is not assignable to type '(action: (a: DataSnapshot & { key: string; }) => boolean | void) => boolean'.
                    Types of parameters 'action' and 'action' are incompatible.
                      Types of parameters 'a' and 'a' are incompatible.
                        Type 'DatabaseSnapshot<T>' is not assignable to type 'DataSnapshot & { key: string; }'.
                          Type 'DatabaseSnapshotExists<T>' is not assignable to type 'DataSnapshot & { key: string; }'.
                            Type 'DatabaseSnapshotExists<T>' is not assignable to type '{ key: string; }'.
                              Types of property 'key' are incompatible.
                                Type 'string | null' is not assignable to type 'string'.
                                  Type 'null' is not assignable to type 'string'.

52 export interface DatabaseSnapshotDoesNotExist<T> extends firebase.database.DataSnapshot {

here's my complete app.module.ts file :

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';

import { AppRoutingModule } from './app-routing.module';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { environment } from '../environments/environment';
import {AngularFireModule} from '@angular/fire/compat';
import { AngularFireDatabaseModule } from '@angular/fire/compat/database';
import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent,
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    AppRoutingModule,
    AngularFireModule.initializeApp(environment.firebase),
    AngularFireDatabaseModule,
    BrowserAnimationsModule,
  ],
  providers: [ ],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

I already tried to delete and reinstall the package but that didn't work. Also, i have an older project with exactly the same line of code and the same version of angular and angular/fire ("@angular/core": "^14.0.0", "@angular/fire": "^7.4.1") which work but i can't create a new one.

Any ideas ?

Answer 1

Just open following file:

node_modules/@angular/fire/compat/firestore/interfaces.d.ts

You can see below that the subclasses have the wrong return value

Change it to this

Basically you just need to add <T> on the end.