firebase / firebase/firebase-tools-ui
Firebase Emulator UI fails to start with Error: spawn node ENOENT
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Description
Note: Before filing bugs in this repo, please ensure that this is a bug for the Emulator Suite UI. Emulator Suite and/or Firebase CLI bugs should be filed under the firebase-tools repo here:
https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/new/choose
**Describe the bug**
When attempting to start the Firebase emulators using the `firebase emulators:start` command, the process fails with the error message `Emulator UI has exited: Error: spawn node ENOENT`. This error occurs even when only a single emulator is started with the `--only` flag.
**To Reproduce**
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1. Run the command `firebase emulators:start` after initializing firebase project and downloading emulators
2. See error
**Expected behavior**
Expected to be able to access emulator ports
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**Desktop (please complete the following information):**
- OS: Windows
- Browser: Chrome
- Version: Windows 11
**Smartphone (please complete the following information):** N/A
- Device: [e.g. iPhone6]
- OS: [e.g. iOS8.1]
- Browser [e.g. stock browser, safari]
- Version [e.g. 22]
**Additional context**
I have ensured that the Node.js path is set to my system's PATH environment variable, I have reinstalled Node.js with the same version that Firebase uses and have even tried running the emulators separately.
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