Deploy to Firebase

This page provides a configuration for deployment to Firebase. In order to deploy to Firebase you will need to add firebase-tools to your project’s devDependencies since attempting to install firebase-tools globally in CircleCI will not work.

If you have not already done so, create a Google Cloud service account with the appropriate access for the deploy job.

Then, create a service account key. You may store the key file contents in your project’s environment variables (in this guide, we name the project environment variable $SA_KEY). Refer to the Set an environment variable in a project guide for instructions. CircleCI will use this credential to authenticate with Firebase.

To take advantage of secrets masking, it is best practice to set environment variables at the project level or within a context.

To learn more about how Google finds application credentials, refer to the documentation for Google Cloud authentication.

The following example shows how you can add a Firebase deploy job to your project’s .circleci/config.yml file. This snippet assumes you already have a job to build your application, called build-job, and introduces a deployment workflow that only runs the deployment job once the build job has completed and you are on the main branch.

If you are using Google Cloud Functions with Firebase, instruct CircleCI to navigate to the folder where the Google Cloud Functions are held (in this case 'functions') and run npm install by adding the below to .circleci/config.yml: