Firebase CLI: No project is currently active

Question

I'm following this Firebase intro tutorial:

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/firebase-web/

I follow the instructions and when I get to step 3, I run firebase use --add and I get the following:

# firebase use --add

> web-start@1.0.0 firebase ~/repos/friendlychat/web-start
> firebase "use"

No project is currently active.

Run firebase use --add to define a new project alias.

But if I run firebase list I see this:

┌──────────────┬───────────────────────┬─────────────┐
│ Name         │ Project ID / Instance │ Permissions │
├──────────────┼───────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│ FriendlyChat │ friendlychat-x3sd0    │ Owner       │
└──────────────┴───────────────────────┴─────────────┘

So I am clearly logged in correctly as I can list my projects and have some sort of access to them on the CLI. But does the error mean it's not active? How do I activate it? There is nothing in the tutorial about this.

What am I missing here? Seems like it's something obvious that I'm just not seeing.

score 22 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 14 '20 at 20:13

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I had the same issue and fixed it by running firebase init again. The file that was missing was the .firebaserc.

The content of this file

{
   "projects": {
     "default": "yourid"
   }
}

hope that helps, Muki

edited Oct 14 '20 at 20:13

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answered Nov 13 '17 at 17:15

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rerunning `firebase init` and selecting appropriate values helped, looks like I did not provide some information when doing it first time – rainversion_3 Jul 12 '20 at 09:10
I had to remove `.firebaserc` from `.gitignore` – Aathik Jan 17 '21 at 13:35

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 10 '19 at 19:28

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you could run your required command (i.e firebase deploy, or any firebase command you're trying to use and gtting this error) with "project flag", like this:

firebase deploy --project my-project-id

and you will be good to go

answered Mar 10 '19 at 19:28

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Event though i have a `.firebaserc` in my project I still need to run with the `--project my-proj-id` flag. – Kilmazing Jan 09 '21 at 15:09

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 25 '20 at 20:53

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type firebase use default before deploying to use the default project in .firebaserc

answered Oct 25 '20 at 20:53

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 14 '20 at 20:22

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To active a Firebase project, you can run command firebase use <project-id>, in your case it would be firebase use friendlychat-x3sd0.

answered Oct 14 '20 at 20:22

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Firebase CLI: No project is currently active

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