Firebase.json empty after running 'ng add @angular/fire'

[johnmckay-reward]

Version info

Angular:
18.1.4

Firebase:
13.15.0

AngularFire:
18.0.1

Other (e.g. Ionic/Cordova, Node, browser, operating system):
Node v20.11.0
macOS 14.1.1 (23B81)

How to reproduce these conditions

• Create a new Angular project
• Use the above combination of dependencies and run ng add @angular/fire
• Login and select your Firebase project
• Work through the steps in the teminal, select the services to add (such as Firestore)
• firebase.json is empty

• app.config.json is updated as expected

Failing test unit, Stackblitz demonstrating the problem

Steps to set up and reproduce

• StackBlitz is tricky to recreate as need to login to your Firebase account
• If you follow the steps above, it should reproduce the issue

Sample data and security rules

• n/a, I follow the steps in the README and firebase.json is still empty

Debug output

** Errors in the JavaScript console **

• No errors in the JS console, everything looks like it has worked

** Output from firebase.database().enableLogging(true); **

• n/a

** Screenshots **

Expected behavior

• The firebase.json file should be populated accordingly

Actual behavior

• We get an empty firebase.json file

[ErickCisneros]

Hi, the same issue is happening to me.

[johnmckay-reward]

Good to know not just me then :)

[johnmckay-reward]

So, it turns out ng-deploy is deprecated.

I was confused, as I've been using this library for a while, and added it to a new project, and didn't know that this had changed.

It was only when I downloaded the code for the library to figure out what was going on, I found this:

Running ng deploy just takes you through the same setup process over and over, and it (obviously) doesn't work.

I think this needs to be made clearer, as people who have been using this library for a while will think it's broken when it's actually not.