ng deploy infinite setup loop

[ersimont]

Version info

Angular: 18.0.3

Firebase: ??

AngularFire: 18.0.1

Other (e.g. Ionic/Cordova, Node, browser, operating system):

How to reproduce these conditions

Failing test unit, Stackblitz demonstrating the problem

This involves running the schematics, so stackblitz doesn't help.

Steps to set up and reproduce

Follow the steps in these docs. I.e.:

1. ng new the-project, choose default options
2. cd the-project
3. ng add @angular/fire choose Performance Monitoring (I don't want any of them actually. I only want to deploy. But I had even worse luck if I chose nothing - so this is a semi-random choice.)
   • At this point the doc says it should have created a .firebaserc file updated angular.json, but neither of these are true
4. ng deploy
   • Here it asks me what to use to deploy. I choose "Firebase" and it simply loops me through the setup steps again, never deploying.

Sample data and security rules

Debug output

** Errors in the JavaScript console **
None

** Output from firebase.database().enableLogging(true); **
I'm not running the app, so I don't think this applies.

** Screenshots **
None

Expected behavior

I can use schematics to set up firebase hosting.

Actual behavior

Schematics do not set up firebase hosting. Instead every time I try to deploy it loops me back through the setup process.