Firebase Hosting set up issue

Question

I'm just trying to do a simple set-up for hosting on firebase. I'm following the instructions at (https://www.firebase.com/docs/hosting/guide/deploying.html) but I'm missing something because I keep getting an error of:

'firebase' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file."

What I've done:

1. Installed nodejs.
2. Set PATH = to C:\Program Files\nodejs; via control Panel
3. in cmd: cd C:\Program Files\nodejs
4. npm install -g firebase-tools
5. changed directory to folder with my html files
6. tried running both firebase app init and firebase init neither of which work and give me the same error

Answer 1

I had this exact same error. I fixed it by changing the path variable to include firebase.

Try finding firebase.cmd on Windows through C:\Users\myname\AppData\Roaming\npm. I couldn't find firebase.exe, which is where I got confused. Looking at your screenshot, I can see where the path is saved.

Just search for the firebase.cmd and add it to your %PATH% C:\Users\myname\AppData\Roaming\npm. Then restart and try again: firebase should be a valid command

Sorry this is a year late and hope this helps someone.

Answer 2

According to Script Kitty's answer, for windows solution only:

You are probably missing npm in your path. You can check it by echo %PATH% to make sure. Thus, open Environmental variables > system variables > path

see if you could not find C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\npm there.

if not, add it following this link. Or simply add your npm path there.