How to change Firebase project directory

Question

I have installed Firebase hosting project into my machine by referring following docs:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/

Now, I want to change the location of my project directory. Wha should I do for this?

Till now I have tried by relogin and re-initialize the project but it does not give option to specify directory again.

Answer 1

Go to the file called firebase.json located in the root of the project and change the field called public in hosting to the directory you want.

{ 
"database": {
    "rules": "database.rules.json"
  },
  "hosting": {
    "public": "public", <------ This points to directory
    "ignore": [
      "firebase.json",
      "**/.*",
      "**/node_modules/**"
    ],
    "rewrites": [
      {
        "source": "**",
        "destination": "/index.html"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Answer 2

Try these steps

1- create a new directory/folder somewhere on your computer 2- open your command line terminal eg git/cmd from the created directory by doing the following a) for git: right click on directory and choose git b) for windows cmd: shift + right on created directory and choose cmd 3- type the command firebase init

Answer 3

在你的npm命令中，转到该文件夹​​所在的目录并键入firebase init最简单的方法是打开Node.js并键入cd“your_directory”而不输入q

Answer 4

Not sure if this is the best way, but none of the other solutions worked for me. I ended up copying the firebase.json file to the new folder I created. I opened the file and updated the public setting to the correct public folder (might be the same, but if you have a React app, you'll want "build" folder).

Then I did firebase init in the new folder through the CLI. This set the correct project folder.

Answer 5

For the Firebase CLI use:

cd.. - Go back to previous directory

cd <dir_name> - To move to <dir_name> folder in current directory