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In this how-to guide, you will learn how to configure CircleCI to deploy to Firebase.

Introduction

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.

1. Install tools

npm install --save-dev firebase-tools

2. Authenticate with a service account

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.

3. Declare environment variable inside run step

  1. Inside a run step, output the value of the environment variable, that is, the contents of the service account key file, to a JSON file.

  2. Set the JSON file path as the value of an environment variable $GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS declared in the shell. Then, run the Firebase deploy command.

      - run:
          name: Deploy on Firebase
          command: |
            echo $SA_KEY > credentials.json
            GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=credentials.json firebase deploy

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

Deploy example

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.

version: 2.1

deploy-job:
  docker:
    - image: <docker-image-name-tag>
  working_directory: /tmp/my-project
  steps:
    - run:
        name: Deploy on Firebase
        command: |
          echo $SA_KEY > credentials.json
          GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=credentials.json firebase deploy

workflows:
  deploy:
    jobs:
      - build-job
      - deploy-job:
          requires:
            - build-job
          filters:
            branches:
              only: main

Google Cloud Functions

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:

    - run: cd functions && npm install

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