There’s a lot of options cheap or even free in the market to deploy our projects. One of these and my favorite is the Firebase Hosting, a service of Google.

Firebase is a set of services of Google that provides you a BaaS (Back-end as a service), which means you don’t have to worry about the boring part of deploy a back-end to your project. One of these services is the Firebase Hosting that you can deploy your website or web app made in HTML, Javascript, and CSS.

I’ll show you how to deploy a simple website in the Firebase Hosting at zero cost.

Create a project

We need to click in “Go to console” in the top right corner.

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So the Firebase console. Now, we gonna create a project by clicking in “Adicionar projeto” (I didn’t find how to change the language on the firebase console)

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Now, we chosen the name of the project and keep on! In the mine, I’ve chosen the name “Firebase Lab”

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Here you can disable google analytics for now:

The project finally created:

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Deploy website

We gonna create a folder and a simple html:

$ mkdir firebase-lab-website

Look at our simple html in the folder:

blog/index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Blog</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Text here</h1>
  </body>
</html>

Now, we need to install the CLI of the firebase with the command below:

$ npm install -g firebase-tools

$ firebase login

After that, execute this command in the website directory and choose the right project:

$ firebase init

First, you select the option “Hosting: Configure and deploy Firebase Hosting sites” with the space bar and press Enter.
Second, choose the option “Use an existing project” by press Enter.
Third, choose the project that you created.
Fourth, enter the folder of your index.html. The default is “public”, but in my case, is “./”.
Last, we need to say if your website is a single-page app.

All ready! Now, the last command in the directory is to deploy:

$ firebase deploy

Our website is online!!

You can see details of the deploy in the option “Hosting” at the left menu: no6 Give me feedback! :) Thanks!

Deploy a website using Firebase Hosting

Create a project

The project finally created:

Deploy website

Look at our simple html in the folder:

Now, we need to install the CLI of the firebase with the command below:

Now, we need login: