flutterfire : The term 'flutterfire' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program

Question

I am getting this error when I run "dart pub global activate flutterfire_cli" :

Activated flutterfire_cli 0.1.1+2. Package flutterfire_cli is currently active at version 0.1.1+2. Resolving dependencies... The package flutterfire_cli is already activated at newest available version. To recompile executables, first-run dart pub global deactivate flutterfire_cli. Installed executable flutterfire. Warning: Pub installs executables into C:\Users\PC\AppData\Local\Pub\Cache\bin, which is not on your path. You can fix that by adding that directory to your system's "Path" environment variable. A web search for "configure windows path" will show you how

I have added this to my user path but I am still getting this error. I checked for solutionsto similar problems which suggested I restart the windows or vs code or terminal - I did all three but it is still not working . I ran in cmd in that it did not give the warning but when I ran flutterfire configure . It gave this error:

"FirebaseCommandException: An error occured on the Firebase CLI when attempting to run a command. COMMAND: firebase --version ERROR: The FlutterFire CLI currently requires the official Firebase CLI to also be installed, see https://firebase.google.com/docs/cli#install_the_firebase_cli for how to install it."

running firebase --version gave this error:

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

This should not be happening as I did connect my app to firebase console.

Answer 1

What worked for me is instead of typing flutterfire I use flutterfire.bat, e.g. flutterfire.bat configure, that way the command works in the git bash with windows.

Answer 2

If you have windows 10. Do not use firebase-tools-instant-win.exe its a trap!

Add Paths to System Variables. Don't forget to change to your username in YOU-USER-NAME

C:\Users\YOU-USER-NAME\AppData\Local\Pub\Cache\bin
C:\Users\YOU-USER-NAME\AppData\Roaming\npm

Next you can execute anywhere (in cmd or firebase-tools-instant-win.exe)

firebase login
npm install -g firebase-tools
dart pub global activate flutterfire_cli

Next you open only cmd.exe command promt and go to the root of your project.

cd c:\PATH-TO-YOU-PROJECT
flutterfire configure