Backing up Source Files: Does a hosted Firebase site behave as a full project repository?

[tamin...@gmail.com]

Firebase Newbie here :)

What I mean is: Are all of my project files deployed to the Firebase server?  If so, is there a way to retrieve/clone my Firebase repository in the event that my local files are lost (i.e. computer is stolen)?

If not, is my Firebase project compatible with git?

Thanks!

[Jacob Wenger]

Hey there,

I'm going to assume you are referring to our Firebase Hosting product. When you do a Firebase deploy, we do send all of your project files (except those which you tell us to ignore in your firebase.json file) and store them. However, we do not provide a service for retrieving/cloning old versions of your site. We do allow you to roll back to a previous version, but we won't actually send you the file list. You should use git or Mercurial to store those files yourself, instead of relying on us to do that.

If you are not referring to Firebase Hosting and instead are referring to Firebase data itself, you can export your data either via the REST API or from your Firebase dashboard.

Jacob

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[Chris Raynor]

One minor addition to what Jacob said is that Firebase Tools only sends the project files within the public directory you specify in the firebase.json file - or with the 'firebase init' command. By default, the tools also ignore files starting with a '.' (dot) - so it's compatible with git in that it won't send your .git folder to be hosted on your production site (unless you specifically change the settings)

Chris