Firebase Hosting not generate firebase.json

Question

I'm trying to host a website in Firebase Hosting (free plan), I followed the steps but it does not generate the file firebase.json

my steps

1- firebase login Already logged in as r*****@gmail.com

2- firebase init

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You're about to initialize a Firebase project in this directory:

C:\Users\Rafael de Azeredo

Before we get started, keep in mind:

You are initializing in an existing Firebase project directory

? Are you ready to proceed? Yes ? Which Firebase CLI features do you want to setup for this folder? Press Space to select features, then Enter to confi rm your choices. Hosting: Configure and deploy Firebase Hosting sites

=== Project Setup

First, let's associate this project directory with a Firebase project. You can create multiple project aliases by running firebase use --add, but for now we'll just set up a default project.

i .firebaserc already has a default project, skipping

=== Hosting Setup

Your public directory is the folder (relative to your project directory) that will contain Hosting assets to be uploaded with firebase deploy. If you have a build process for your assets, use your build's output directory.

? What do you want to use as your public directory? public ? Configure as a single-page app (rewrite all urls to /index.html)? No ? File public/404.html already exists. Overwrite? No i Skipping write of public/404.html ? File public/index.html already exists. Overwrite? No i Skipping write of public/index.html

i Writing configuration info to firebase.json... i Writing project information to .firebaserc...

Firebase initialization complete!

3- firebase deploy

=== Deploying to 'myhosting-dfe25'...

i deploying database, hosting i database: checking rules syntax... + database: rules syntax for database myhosting-dfe25 is valid i hosting: preparing public directory for upload... + hosting: 2 files uploaded successfully i database: releasing rules... + database: rules for database myhosting-dfe25 released successfully

Deploy complete!

Project Console: https://console.firebase.google.com/project/myhosting-dfe25/overview Hosting URL: https://myhosting-dfe25.firebaseapp.com

4- https://myhosting-dfe25.firebaseapp.com but when I open the page I get this message instead of my index.html:

Welcome Firebase Hosting Setup Complete You're seeing this because you've successfully setup Firebase Hosting. Now it's time to go build something extraordinary!

Can someone help me please?

refer youtube.com/watch?v=Gl-qlxfTJHE this link might solve your issue. — Rohit Maurya
Open your /public/index.html in a text editor. Check if it is indeed the page you're trying to deploy — Rosário Pereira Fernandes
What do you mean it's "not generate firebase.json"? Step 2 has "Writing configuration info to firebase.json" and you are able deploy so firebase.json has to exist. What what are you expecting to happen and what is actually happening? — abraham
What files are in where you are running firebase init in C:\Users\Rafael de Azeredo? — abraham

Emir Mamashov Emir Mamashov · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-22T09:26:56

Create file firebase.json in root directory in y project:

{
  "hosting": {
    "public": "public",
    "ignore": [
      "firebase.json",
      "**/.*",
      "**/node_modules/**"
    ]
  }
}

after run command:

firebase use --add

choose y project and deploy:

firebase deploy

Firebase Hosting not generate firebase.json

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