Google Cloud storage is not a function

Question

I am trying to connect to the Google Cloud Bucket through

 const storage = require('@google-cloud/storage');
 const gcs = storage({    //TypeError: storage is not a function
  "keyFileName": 'path-to-keyfile.json',
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": <PROJECT_NAME>,

 //SOME CREDENTIALS
});

const bucket = gcs.bucket(<BUCKET_NAME>)

but I am getting an error that storage is not a function. Is there some issue that i am missing?

Answer 1

By using the Node.js Cloud Storage client libraries version 2.3.4 I was able to connect to a bucket with this code:

'use strict';

async function quickstart(
  projectId = 'PROJECT_ID', // Your Google Cloud Platform project ID
  keyFilename = '/home/folder/key.json' //Full path of the JSON file
) {
  // Imports the Google Cloud client library
  const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');

  // Creates a client
  const storage = new Storage({keyFilename,projectId});
  const bucket = storage.bucket('BUCKET_NAME')

This was based on the Quickstart documentation and the constructor options

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

The recommended methods didn't work for me, while updating GCS from 1.x to 5.x on an older project. Node 14, CommonJs (not modules).

But this finally worked:

const Storage = require('@google-cloud/storage');
const gcs = new Storage({gcsProjectId});