Firebase deploy keeps giving me an Error: Parse Error in remoteconfig.template.json

Question

I am trying to deploy a web app with firebase but every time I run deploy I keep getting this error

Error: Parse Error in remoteconfig.template.json:

No data, empty input at 1:1

^
File: "remoteconfig.template.json"

Inconspicuous

Answer 1

You have a reference to a remoteconfig.template.json in your firebase.json files, but that template doesn't exist. This will typically look like:

  "remoteconfig": {
    "template": "remoteconfig.template.json"
  }

The solution is to find this section in your firebase.json file, and remove it.

Misbegotten

I have to disagree with this approach because I believe the file exists but is empty. The suggested approach would break the reference to the remoteconfig defined template file (in that case remoteconfig.template.json) going forward.I would suggest to avoid removing the mentionned section from the firebase.json file but instead add { } in the template file, which would allow the firebase deploy to work. – Domestic

Sounds like a great alternative answer @BenjaminRAIBAUD :) – Misbegotten

Answer 2

You are receiving this error because in your firebase init you included (or said yes to) remote config. For it to work with deploy you must add at least one parameter in the file remoteconfig.template.json like so;

{
    "example_minimum_score_for_level_2": 500
}

Armoured

Answer 3

As @BenjaminRAIBAUD commented, if remoteconfig.template.json is empty, try adding { } to the file. That worked for me.

Blackmarket