Setup Firebase CLI and Initialize Firebase SDK for Cloud Functions

I tried to read the official document to setup firebase in your CLI and soon I got lost. It is very brief so I decided to write my own elaborated version of it. Here it goes

install node and npm then check using

node -v and npm -v

Once you have Node and npm installed, install the Firebase CLI via npm:

npm install -g firebase-tools

login to firebase

use firebase login to log in via the browser and authenticate the firebase tool.

if it doesn’t work then use

firebase login --interactive

it will redirect to the browser where you can choose your google account to login to firebase console

firebase login successful toast

Now you setup your project

Use firebase init functions then press y to use the current directory to initialize your Firebase projects.

Then comes project setup. Now, using the CLI is tricky. the pointer is at position 1 and it moves down from there.

Press enter to select option-1 Use an existing project

or move down by pressing the down arrow once to create a new project and so on

Choose the language you are comfortable with and the press another y if you want to use ESLint to catch probable bugs and enforce style?

then you’ll see something like this in your command line

Wrote functions/package.json
+  Wrote functions/.eslintrc.json
+  Wrote functions/index.js
+  Wrote functions/.gitignore
? Do you want to install dependencies with npm now? (Y/n) y

After that some more installation and finally you’ll see a message like this

Now when you go to the project directory then you’ll some files created for yor project.

Hope it helps :-)