Why does my service account not give remote access to Google Cloud Firestore?

Question

So I followed the instructions here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/quickstart to get my Node app working with Firestore (under Initialize on your own server ). I created a service account like they say, giving it the the "Cloud Firestore Editor" privilege and downloaded the .json key file. When I run the example code like so though:

 const admin = require('firebase-admin'); const serviceAccount = require('./gcloud-service-account.json') admin.initializeApp({ credential: admin.credential.cert(serviceAccount) }); var db = admin.firestore(); db.settings({ timestampsInSnapshots: true }) var docRef = db.collection('users').doc('alovelace'); var setAda = docRef.set({ first: 'Ada', last: 'Lovelace', born: 1815 }); 

I get this error:

UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: 7 PERMISSION_DENIED: Missing or insufficient permissions.

What am I doing wrong, or what steps could I take to debug this? Thanks!

Answer 1

Never mind.... It was the last step of service account creation I was missing - you have to grant user access to itself for some reason, so put the newly created account name in the "grant users" box. Hope that helps someone.