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firebase CLI will not recognize current directory for 'firebase init'

I am following a tutorial on Ionic Angular and it has come to the point where the instructor is having me publish my code to Firebase Hosting. First I used NPM to install the Firebase CLI. Then I was instructed to use the firebase init command. The issue is that the CLI doesn't seem to recognize the current directory that is selected in my terminal.

I run: cd /Users/MyUserName/myProjectsFolder/myProject/ Then I run firebase init and it displays:

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

/Users/MyUserName

When I would expect it to read:

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

/Users/MyUserName/myProjectsFolder/myProject

A little bit of googling found this page: https://firebase.google.com/docs/cli/

Which includes this passage:

To initialize a new project directory, change directories in the terminal to your desired project directory and run: firebase init

Based on this I would expect the steps I took to work.

I am confused. Has anyone ever run into this behavior? Can anyone think of a way to get the CLI to function as expected?

Thanks.

Solution

    1. Got to folder:

      /Users/Username/

    2. Search for a file with name of firebase.json and Delete it.

    3. Reinstall firebase tool with this command (--unsafeper- to avoid permissions error messages & use sudo):

      $ sudo npm install --unsafeper- -g firebase-tools

    4. Then, go to your pubilc folder (you have to create one) which contains your HTML, JS, images and CSS files and use this command:

      $ sudo firebase init

      $ sudo firebase deploy

    5. The reset is easy and as mentioned in the firebase docs:

    https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/quickstart