I know that you have only one firebase app in your project and is weird how you initialize it, so this way no amount of messy code can cause multiple loads :
import {initializeApp, cert, getApps} from 'firebase-admin/app';
const existentApps = getApps();
export const firebaseAdminAppInstance =
existentApps?.[0] ||
initializeApp({
credential: cert(JSON.parse(process.env.FIREBASE_ADMIN_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS || '{}')),
});
export default firebaseAdminAppInstance;
⚠️ The example is using firebase-admin
because in web client should work ok no matter what.