How to use Firebase-tools on Windows?

Question

I want to get started with firebase on a Windows machine but I don\'t understand the getting started instructions on https://www.firebase.com/docs/web/quickstart.html.

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Answer 1

Firepit is a new CLI tool built for Windows that attempts to be the native firebase-tools

Firepit is a standalone, portable version of the Firebase CLI which has no depedencies (including Node.js). Download, click, and immediately get access to both firebase and npm commands.

Worth checking out https://github.com/abehaskins/firepit

Answer 2

Basically i had to open command prompt and switch to C:\Program Files\nodejs, where file npm is located), then npm commands can be executed according to instructions. Later on when firebase is installed perform a restart for the changes to PATH environment variable to take effect. After that the firebase (init, deploy, ...) command can be used to deploy a site.