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Firestore: Unable to read document data (Uncaught TypeError: docSnap.exists is not a function at HTMLFormElement)

I am a new developer with no experience in Web apps. I have a collection called "users" in Firestore in which the document IDs are the user's emails. I am trying to read the data in one of the documents following the example provided by Firebase here

I get two errors:

  • First one is the use of "await": Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected reserved word.
  • Second is this message: Uncaught TypeError: docSnap.exists is not a function at HTMLFormElement.

I bypassed the first one by ommiting "await", but cannot avoid the second. Have you got any idea of what is wrong with my code?

console.log(docSnap) gives the following message: "Promise {pending}"

Thanks.

requestForm.addEventListener('submit', (event) => {
event.preventDefault();

const user = auth.currentUser;
const docSnap = await getDoc(doc(db, "users", user.email));

    if (docSnap.exists()) {
        console.log("Document data:", docSnap.data());
        } else {
        console.log("No such document!");
    }
})

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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Looks like you return a Promise and it does not meet the requirements of async/await. Try this way.

getDoc(doc(db, "users", user.email)).then(docSnap => {
  if (docSnap.exists()) {
    console.log("Document data:", docSnap.data());
  } else {
    console.log("No such document!");
  }
})
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report

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Be careful, getDoc vs getDocs

For single document

import { doc, getDoc } from "firebase/firestore";

const docRef = doc(db, "cities", "SF");
const docSnap = await getDoc(docRef);

if (docSnap.exists()) {
  console.log("Document data:", docSnap.data());
} else {
  // doc.data() will be undefined in this case
  console.log("No such document!");
}

For all document

import { collection, getDocs } from "firebase/firestore";

const querySnapshot = await getDocs(collection(db, "cities"));
querySnapshot.forEach((doc) => {
  // doc.data() is never undefined for query doc snapshots
  console.log(doc.id, " => ", doc.data());
});
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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