Error: hosting:channel:deploy is not a Firebase command

Question

I'm trying to preview my firebase website and share with the following command:

firebase hosting:channel:deploy "testing_changes" 

but I keep getting Error: hosting:channel:deploy is not a Firebase command

I've also tried not passing a string and just the word but I get the same error. I'm positive I'm in the root directory.

Answer 1

as per this blog, you need to have firebase-tools >= 8.12.0.

run firebase --version in a terminal to view your currently installed version of firebase-tools.

to update firebase-tools write npm i -g firebase-tools in a terminal.

if you are on linux sudo npm i -g firebase-tools.