Showing the active Firebase project in the command line

If you are working on a project where Firebase is used, most likely you have a separate project created for each environment (dev, staging, prod, sometimes maybe even more). During the development, it often happens that you need to configure something using Firebase CLI. Whenever you intend to make a change you want to make sure the right project is set as active. This can be verified easily by running

$ firebase use

which returns something like this

This is good, but the command itself is a bit slow and also you might easily forget to run the command and verify the active project. Then it can happen that you start deploying your temporary testing version of a cloud function to the production environment (!!!). After immediately canceling the script and getting over a little panic attack I knew this cannot happen again. At this point, I decided to create a little helper utility that would always show the currently selected project in the command line if you are in the project directory.

When you install firebase-tools it creates a configuration file ~/.config/configstore/firebase-tools.json which apart from…