update to firebase@5

[amitport]

Bug Report

What is the expected behavior?

installing flex-layout for dev should work

What is the current behavior?

installing flex-layout for development fails on windows with node 10

Is there anything else we should know?

Root package.json uses firebase@4 which transitively uses grpc@1.10.1 which fails to build on win+node 10. firebase@5 does not have this issue.

See also:
grpc/grpc#15403
angular/components#10401
angular/components#11735

[CaerusKaru]

Closing based on angular/components#11735 (comment)

[amitport]

@CaerusKaru I don't really get it. Angular may not officially support Node.js@10, but it's not like it an esoteric end of life product. It's going to be LTS in October. You will need to update from firebase@4 soon enough and it should be an issue IMO (maybe not a very urgent one).

[CaerusKaru]

We will upgrade if and when Material upgrades, since we just use their build system and configuration. When the material issue gets resolved, it will be resolved here. I don't see any point in having multiple issues for the same thing.

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