Automating your deployment process helps you deliver your product faster and allows your team to focus on building and collecting valuable feedback from customers.

Continuous deployment (CD), not to be confused with continuous delivery, is a software engineering approach in which software functionalities are delivered frequently through automated deployments. Continuous delivery, by contrast, needs final approval before a manual deployment is triggered.

Firebase is a web and mobile development platform by Google that includes offerings such as hosting, realtime database, and cloud storage. This tutorial will focus on the hosting product.

Setting up continuous delivery is sometimes a chore because you often have to use different tools and platforms to set up, build, test, and deploy — which brings us to GitHub Actions.

Launced in November 2019, GitHub Actions are individual tasks that you can combine to create jobs and customize your workflow. Most importantly, it enables you to set up tasks to build, test, and deploy your code from GitHub to Firebase.

In this guide, we’ll show you how to set up a workflow that builds, tests, and deploys a sample React project to Firebase.

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