Do I have to use "firebase deploy" after each change?

Question

I'm still new to web development and I'm using Firebase to handle all my data right now.

I have everything up and running, but how do I make it so my Firebase website updates whenever I make a change to my files? Do I have to manually call firebase deploy after each change in order to see the updated site?

Answer 1

I'm working on a Angular 4 app with Firebase as a backend, so the steps are

$ ng build --prod
$ firebase deploy

Answer 2

To deploy your changes to the Firebase Hosting server, you will indeed have to run firebase deploy.

But normally when I develop an application, I run a local web server for the most part. I then only push the changes to Firebase Hosting when I have finished the feature/bugfix that I'm working on.

For local execution, I either use http-server or a gulp script that also packs the files. The latter have the advantage that they can watch your local files for changes and execute the correct steps based on that.