firebase-tools “Error: certificate has expired”

Question

This morning I tried to deploy my react project to firebase hosting but I received this error:

Error: Server Error. certificate has expired

The

Answer 1

I had an old version of firebase installed that was not allowing the new CLI to run correctly. I had to manually delete the old version, reinstall the new version, and then everything worked fine. Here's how I did it:

1. Run which firebase in your terminal to see where your firebase npm package is saved.
2. Delete that folder.
3. Run npm i -g firebase-tools@latest
4. Run firebase init and you should be up and running again without any errors.

Answer 2

Had the same problem. Change your local clock to before 4th of January 2020

Answer 3

run npm install --save firebase-functions@latest and make sure to add

"engines": {
  "node": "8" 
}

in your package.json

Answer 4

If issue still exist after updating the CLI then try to logout from firebase and re-login

firebase logout
firebase login

Answer 5

I updated to latest and did logout+login. Only started working after closing the terminal and opening a new one

Answer 6

Probably you will need:

sudo npm i -g firebase-tools@latest --force