Can Firebase functions be marked as async? For example: async def async_function() -> str: print("async function starting") await asyncio.sleep(1) print ("async function finished") return "finished" @https_fn.on_request() async def sample_cloud_function(req: https_fn.Request) -> https_fn.Response: result = await async_function() return https_fn.Response(result) The above throws a type error when emulating: TypeError: The view function did not return a valid response. The return type must be a string, dict, list, tuple with headers or status, Response instance, or WSGI callable, but it was a coroutine. But I am able to deploy it. When deploying though nothing happens, I get a warning saying the function is never awaited. I also can't find documentation on this. What are best practices here? Continue reading...
