Deploying to Firebase Hosting using CircleCI

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to deploy to Firebase Hosting using CircleCI. As far as I know, there is no way to setup deployment with an SSH key, so I'm trying to find a way of logging into Firebase during deployment and push the code. What I have tried so far is the following in my circle.yml:

// circle.yml
deployment:
  production:
    branch: circle-deploy
    commands:
      - npm install -g firebase-tools
      - firebase login | echo -e "${FIREBASE_EMAIL}\n${FIREBASE_PASSWORD}"
      - firebase deploy

However, I keep getting the following error and I'm not sure how to remedy it.

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mattmcmanus · Answer 1 · 2016-05-24T21:05:13.287

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I just had to do this and there is a easier way

On your machine, you can get your access token by typing
```
firebase login:ci
```
Save that token as an environment variable in circleci, $FIREBASE_TOKEN

For your deploy step, you can skip the login:

deployment:
  production:
    branch: master
    commands:
      - firebase deploy --token=$FIREBASE_TOKEN --non-interactive

edited May 24 '16 at 21:05

answered Nov 03 '15 at 20:55

mattmcmanus

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Had no idea `login:ci` was a thing. thanks for pointing that out! – drewwyatt Dec 13 '17 at 19:50

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 08 '16 at 15:59

A small addition to the other answers above...

In order to avoid installing firebase-tools globally in circle ci on every build:

Modify your package.json file to include firebase-tools as a dev dependency like so:

npm install --save-dev firebase-tools

Then in your circle.yml file:

deployment:
  production:
    branch: master
    commands:
      - ./node_modules/.bin/firebase deploy --token=$FIREBASE_TOKEN --non-interactive

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 21 '16 at 23:42

For anyone else who stumbles upon this question, these are the steps I had to take to get CircleCI (and presumably any other CI) working with Firebase Hosting.

Generate a CI token: firebase login:ci
Save that token as an ENV var (FIREBASE_TOKEN)
Use the token in your deploy script: firebase deploy --token=$FIREBASE_TOKEN --non-interactive

Firebase added the login:ci recently to prevent people from using personal deploy tokens for CI services.

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 14 '16 at 23:35

This is my initial setup, deploy only master, skip tests

run npm install -g firebase-tools on your local machine
run firebase login:ci to get the token on your local machine
run firebase init. This will create firebase.json make sure it is committed
configure FIREBASE_TOKEN in Environment Variables in BUILD SETTINGS of the project on circileci

//circle.yml

general:
  branches:
    only:
      - master

test:
  override:
    - echo "test"

deployment:
  production:
    branch: master
    commands:
      - npm install -g firebase-tools
      - firebase deploy --token=$FIREBASE_TOKEN --non-interactive

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Apr 21 '16 at 10:38

Here is the process we followed to deploy to CircleCi.

Store your username and password as environment variables at the project level in CircleCi.

Edit your circle.yml

deployment:
  production:
    branch: your_branch
    commands:
      - npm install -g firebase-tools
      - firebase login --email $FIREBASE_USERNAME --password $FIREBASE_PASSWORD
      - firebase deploy

Push to your branch

Seems to work fine.

Deploying to Firebase Hosting using CircleCI

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