Hosting your website with FirebasešŸ”„

Gaute Meek Olsen
1 min readOct 22, 2019

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I love how easy it is to host a website with Firebase for free.

Set Up

Create a project in the Firebase console by just a few clicks.

If you havenā€™t used firebase before, install the cli and login:

npm i -g firebase-tools
firebase login

Then initiate your project:

firebase init

Select ā€œHostingā€ with space then enter. Then select the project created in the Firebase console. Then enter the path to the folder your index.html file is located (i.e. public). If you have a single-page app and want all urls to point to index.html select yes.

Deploy

firebase deploy

Congratulations, you have now hosted your website. You will find your page as a subdomain of firebaseapp.com and web.app. Like this https://projectid.firebaseapp.com and https://projectid.web.app. If you need your own domain, just go to Hosting in the firebase console and press the Connect domain button. Each time you need to update the content, just make the changes and hit firebase deploy again.

Check out Firebase for more information.

Conclusion

firebase init
firebase deploy

Thatā€™s all, thank you for reading šŸ”„šŸ’™

p.s. check out my similar article for automatic hosting with Netlify.

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