I need to pull down my code from a firebase hosted site, I created a site this past summer and no longer have the code locally on my laptop. I would like to recode some of the pieces, but don't have the source code anymore (other than the javascript and css I can glean from the served pages). I can't find a way to get the code from the firebase site, does anyone have any ideas?
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it does seem strange to have to post questions on here, but that is what firebase asks users to do: "For API questions and general technical help, we encourage you to use the Firebase tag on StackOverflow. We monitor the questions very closely, and using StackOverflow allows others to benefit from the answers"
- Randal Wilcox
Randal, it's not at all strange to post API or technical questions here. @Mooseman this isn't a documented or supported feature of Firebase and therefore isn't a documentation issue.
- Kato
Firebase hosting just keeps the static resources of your web site, so it (normally) doesn't contain anything but JavaScript, CSS and HTML. What other code than JavaScript are you looking for?
- Frank van Puffelen
The angular views that I wrote for the project
- Randal Wilcox
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You should of course add your own version control (e.g. git) to manage your revisions and backups so this doesn't occur.
There is a script you can run to download all the assets using the CLI. You can find the script and instructions here. It can also be run using npx:
npx https://gist.github.com/mbleigh/9c8680cf319ace2f506f57380da66e7d <site_name>
Note that this only returns the compiled/rendered content from the specified public folder and not any precompiled source you may have had on the development machine.
Since your files are static assets, you could also scrape them using wget. This is inferior for advanced apps as you'll get the rendered content and not the source:
wget -r -np https://<YOURAPPNAME>.firebaseapp.com
Read more on scraping web sites here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/100570/getting-files-all-at-once-from-a-web-page-using-curl
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Maybe this answer is not exactly consisted with requested direction but in order to list the files which are being uploaded you could during the deploy use --debug switch:
firebase deploy --debug
With this option you will see the POST request. Something like that:
>>> HTTP REQUEST POST https://deploy.firebase.com/firebase/yourapp/releases?token=XXX public=dist, version=-KE5UDaj7oCppckjEBaE, prefix=-KE5UDaj7oCppckjEBaE/, manifest=[path=404.html, object=404.html, path=scripts\main\main.html, object=scripts\main\main.html, path=scripts\scripts.d6106dbd.js, object=scripts\scripts.d6106dbd.js, path=scripts\vendor.68cdc83b.js, object=scripts\vendor.68cdc83b.js, path=styles\main.5b335e2d.css, object=styles\main.5b335e2d.css, path=styles\vendor.d41d8cd9.css, object=styles\vendor.d41d8cd9.css], rules=undefined
<<< HTTP RESPONSE 200 server=nginx, date=Wed, 30 Mar 2016 07:46:31 GMT, content-type=application/json; charset=utf-8, content-length=34, connection=close, access-control-allow-origin=*, access-control-allow-methods=GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS, strict-transport-security=max-age=31556926; includeSubDomains; preload, x-content-type-options=nosniff
It might helps to trace what is rally uploaded to firebase hosting.
But I agree that the lack option to simple list the files on firebase hosting do not encourage to use this service.
