firebase version is not updating through <npm install -g firebase-tools>

Question

i am windows user and trying to update firebase version using npm install -g firebase-tools but when i run firebase --version it shows the same version. I also run npm uninstall firebase --save and check firebase --version it shows same. what should i do to update my firebase version?

Answer 1

npm update -g firebase-tools

or

npm install -g firebase-tools@3.12.0 to install a specific version

And make sure to restart your terminal/IDE otherwise, it won't take effect.

Answer 2

Have you tried npm update -g firebase-tools? This worked for me.

Answer 3

For other like me stumbling in with a weird version mismatch:

When I did firebase -V in my terminal I would get a different version (5.1.1) than when I ran firebase through a npm run script (3.19.3)

The problem was that I had previously installed firebase locally into that project. In other words, I was getting the global version in the terminal, but npm was using the node_modules version

To confirm this, I added a simple test called test-foo to my package.json (firebase -V && which firebase) and ran it:

kuzyn(λ)matebox‡ npm run test-foo
kuzyn-project@1.1.0 test-foo /home/kuzyn/code/kuzyn-project/firebase
firebase -V && which firebase
3.19.3
/home/kuzyn/code/kuzyn-project/firebase/node_modules/.bin/firebase

Then I removed the (uneeded in my case) local firebase package from the package.json and from node_modules

Answer 4

Try the 2 steps bellow 1. yarn/npm cache clean 2. npm install -g firebase firebase-tools or yarn add -g firebase firebase-tools in a new terminal, firebse --version works for me