I'm experimenting with ethers.js contract deployment inside a firebase cloud function. My functions build and compiles, but when I run either firebase serve --only functions or firebase deploy --only functions, it deploys one of the contracts exported in index.ts, ("helloWorld") but not the other one ("greet"), which is what I'm trying to test.

No errors are generated in the build step, and when I run firebase serve, I get a URL for helloWorld, but nothing (nor any error messages) on 'greet'.

Here's the contents of index.ts:

import {ethers, Wallet} from "ethers";
import * as functions from "firebase-functions";
import greetJson from "../contracts/greeter.json";

export const greet = functions.https.onRequest(async (request, response) => {
  const provider = new ethers.providers.JsonRpcProvider("http://localhost:8545");
  const signer = new
  Wallet("*redacted*",
      provider);
  console.log("starting deploy");
  const abi = greetJson.abi;
  const factory = new ethers.ContractFactory(abi, greetJson.bytecode, signer);
  const contract = await factory.deploy(["Ciao Bella"]);
  const greeter = await contract.deployed();
  const greetresult = await greeter.greet();
  response.send("Hello: " + greetresult);
});

export const helloWorld = functions.https.onRequest((request, response) => {
  functions.logger.info("Hello logs!", {structuredData: true});
  response.send("Hello from Firebase!");
});

here's the terminal output:

My-MacBook-Pro:functions jk$ npm run-script build

build tsc

My-MacBook-Pro:functions jk$ firebase serve --only functions
⚠  Your requested "node" version "16" doesn't match your global version "14". Using node@14 from host.
i  functions: Watching "/Users/jk/Documents/VSCodeProjects/BKC/bkc-cloud-blockchain/functions" for Cloud Functions...
✔  functions[us-central1-helloWorld]: http function initialized (http://localhost:5000/bkc-63bcf/us-central1/helloWorld).

That's it. Any idea why the greet function is ignored?