Hi,
I am using this documentation - [Preformatted text](https://circleci.com/docs/deploy-to-firebase/)
for deploying my react app to firebase. However, it always fails with following error:
/bin/bash: line <>: firebase: command not found
Error:
Exited with code exit status 127
I have seen other issues related to firebase deployment but they all use old approach of fetching firebase token. What can I do to fix this?
without seeing your config file it is hard to tell what the issue is, but
did you add firebase-tools to your projectās devDependencies as noted in the doc you linked to?
after checking out your code, did you do something like ārun: npm installā to cause the dependencies to be loaded?
yes. this how devDependencies in my package.json looks like:
"devDependencies": {
"@babel/plugin-proposal-private-property-in-object": "^7.21.11",
"firebase-tools": "^13.3.0"
}
and my config.yml
version: 2.1
orbs:
node: circleci/node@5.2
jobs:
test-node:
# Install node dependencies and run tests
executor: node/default
steps:
- checkout
- node/install-packages:
pkg-manager: npm
- run:
name: Run tests
command: |
npm install
npm test --passWithNoTests
build:
# Build node project
executor: node/default
steps:
- checkout
- node/install-packages:
pkg-manager: npm
- run:
command: |
npm install
- run:
command: |
npm run build
echo credentials="${pwd}/credentials.json"
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=$credentials firebase deploy
FYI - I tried both running locally and in ci
OK after some R&D, unless I am missing something I can not see how that example would work. My reasoning is as follows
The docs state that you can not install firebase-tools globally and instead have to install them locally as part of the npm environment.
The example then goes and uses firebase as if it is an executable that the shell can find in its path - indicating that the executable has been installed into a bin directory somewhere or that the npm install process has gone and started to modify things like the path environment variable.
When using the debug mode of npm install there is no indication that it is handling the firebase package any differently to any other npm package and so no wider environmental changes are taking place.
I can find no examples on the internet of what is being shown in the CircleCI docs, instead a ālocalā install of firebase tools needs to be accessed via an ānpm execā command
Reworking your config.yml file a bit I have the following example
version: 2.1
orbs:
node: circleci/node@5.2
jobs:
build:
# Build node project
executor: node/default
steps:
- checkout
- run:
command: |
npm i --package-lock-only
npm install --save-dev firebase-tools
- node/install-packages:
pkg-manager: npm
- run:
command: |
npm install
- run:
command: |
echo credentials="junkvalue"
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=$credentials npm exec -- firebase --version
workflows:
build-and-test:
jobs:
- build
Thanks! Much improvement over original documentation. This worked. I have a follow-up question. Is there a way to separate build and deploy jobs here.
build:
# Build node project
executor: node/default
steps:
- checkout
- node/install-packages:
pkg-manager: npm
- run:
command: |
npm i --package-lock-only
npm install --save-dev firebase-tools
npm run build
deploy:
docker:
- image: cimg/base:stable
steps:
- run:
name: Deploy on Firebase
command: <>
And perhaps while you are on it. do you know the problem with setting the path of json file here. My credentials.json is at root of react app.
- run:
name: Deploy on Firebase
command: |
echo "credentials.json" > credentials.json
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=credentials.json npm exec -- firebase deploy
I always get the authentication error
Failed to authenticate, have you run firebase login?
I am not sure what you mean by āseparateā. Each of the 2 jobs defined are run as independent jobs within independent environments.
If you want to just run one or other of the defined jobs, you would do this by using conditional checks within the workflow: section of the config.yml file. A good starting place would be
Once you have spent some time in the docs you will find that you can base conditions on the following
There is also what is known as the continuation ORB. This allows a config.yml to run a workflow that performs work, such as retrieving environmental info and then call another config.yml file. This allows you to get a value and pass it as a parameter, which can then be used in a condition check.
This is going to put the text string ācredentials.jsonā into the file ācredentials.jsonā, which is unlikely to be what you are aiming for.
You might be right but I tried with all the possibilities a path can be defined. As per documentation, it expects path to json file which is at root of my project directory.
I have tried ā./credentials.jsonā, ā/project/credentials.jsonā, ā/root/credentials.jsonā
I dont know what I am missing here.
And for the above question, I will try to use workspaces.
You should be echoing the login credential value from google into that file. The original example code you were working from at
https://circleci.com/docs/deploy-to-firebase
uses
echo $SA_KEY > credentials.json
as it was using a value stored in the SA_KEY environment variable.
I was finally able to deploy successfully.
The major trigger was storing and retrieving json file from circleci. I stored an encoded string and decoded the same before deployment. And that worked.
Thanks for all the help.