Cant get Firebase in Node JS app to run

I am trying to setup firebase JS client with NodeJS. So far here is my code

var firebase = require('firebase/app');

require('firebase/database');

var config = {
  apiKey: "MY_SECRET_KEY_fhcWICPI",
  authDomain: "my_fir_app.firebaseapp.com",
  databaseURL: "https://my_fir_app.firebaseio.com",
};
var firApp = firebase.initializeApp(config);

firebase.database.enableLogging(true)

// Get a reference to the database service
var database = firebase.database();

Then here is one of my Firebase functions to save data to the real time database.

/**
 * This will save the authors of stories in Firebase
 * @param  {String} id              The ID of the author
 * @param  {String} firstName       The authors first name
 * @param  {String} lastName        The authors last name
 * @param  {Timestamp} dateCreated  The unix time stamp when the author    was created
 */
 function saveStoryAuthor(id, firstName, lastName, dateCreated) {
    database.ref('mystoriesdb/authors/' + id).set({
      first_name: firstName,
      last_name: lastName,
      date_created : dateCreated
    });
 }

Finally, somewhere in the middle of my code am calling this function as

...

saveStoryAuthor('MZ8XWXNrkG', 'Dennis', 'Richie')

...

However, this is what I get in the logs (since I have enabled logging)

$ node index.js
p:0: Browser went online.
p:0: Making a connection attempt
getToken() completed. Creating connection.
c:0:0: Connection created
p:0: Failed to get token: Error: No transports available
p:0: data client disconnected
p:0: Trying to reconnect in 326.9669258513522ms
0: onDisconnectEvents
p:0: Making a connection attempt
getToken() completed. Creating connection.
c:0:1: Connection created
p:0: Failed to get token: Error: No transports available

I am probably doing something wrong. Could someone help.

via nmvictor