firebut is short for Firebase Upload Tool.
It is like the official firebase-tools CLI but very much simpler and stripped down. It only implements an uploader for Firebase Hosting, so it's great if you want to host static pages on Firebase. You can also avoid having to install the Node.js and npm crap because this tool is written in Go and compiles to a single static binary.
You can download pre-built binaries for your platform on the releases page on GitHub.
You will need to install Go.
To download and compile firebut, use go get:
go get github.com/geekman/firebut
The firebut executable should now be in your $GOPATH/bin directory.
You will need to run firebut in your project directory.
This is where the config file .firebut is created,
as well as where the tool can find the files to be uploaded (deployed).
Following the firebase-tools CLI, firebut assumes that the files are in the public subdirectory.
firebase-tools allows you to configure this using the
firebase.json
file but this is not supported in firebut yet.
The steps to use firebut is similar:
firebut loginfirebut upload -message "uploaded new version with firebut"
You need to use login for the first time to authorize firebut to upload files.
Once the config file has been created, you can just use upload to deploy new versions of your site.
Optionally, you can also use firebase diff to see what files have changed
since your last deployed version.
Note that the diff function retrieves gzipped content hash,
rather than of the actual file contents, so files uploaded using the official
firebase-tools will show up as "modified", even though the files may be exactly the same.
This issue is due to different gzip implementations in Go and Node.js. It will go away once a new version has been uploaded using this Go-based tool.
firebut is licensed under the 3-clause ("modified") BSD License.
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