Firebase not running index.html file

Question

I\'m a pretty new programmer going through the Firebase tutorial. I have gone through steps 1-5 of the tutorial (https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/firebase-web

Answer 1

For angular 2 or 6 with cli, use . (dist) as the public directory,

$ ng build --prod
$ cd dist/
$ firebase init
 ? What do you want to use as your public directory? .
 ? Configure as a single-page app (rewrite all urls to /index.html)? Yes
 ? File ./index.html already exists. Overwrite? No
$ firebase deploy