firebase-tools error: EACCES: permission denied

Question

I am trying to deploy Firebase hosting of my web app.

At the command line, when I type firebase deploy, I get the following error.

Note: f

Answer 1

Expanding more detail to the solution provided by @jacobawenger:

The most robust solution is to install Homebrew and let Homebrew manage the npm package installation for you.

Terminal.sh

# EACCESS error reference: https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions
# Install Homebrew # Reference: brew.sh # Ensures NPM is installed properly to avoid EACCESS errors
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
# Install npm # Reference: brew.sh
brew install node
# Install firebase-tools
npm install -g firebase-tools # Non-recurring task # Also updates to newest version (see notice)