Progressive Web Apps with React

Deploying Firebase

As I mentioned earlier, Firebase comes with a baked-in deployment solution. Let's get our app up and working on the real live web! Here's how to do it:

1. To do so, we'll first need to install the Firebase command-line tools:

npm install -g firebase-tools

Don’t forget the -g. This flag installs the tools globally on your machine.

2. The next step is to log in to our Firebase tools:

firebase login

3. To complete our Firebase tools setup, we can now initialize our app as a Firebase project, similar to what we did with npm. Ensure that you run this from the root of the project folder:

firebase init

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