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Firebase would not let me create a distroav project name.
I am guessing it might have already been taken, but I cannot seem to find anything existing & in use.
So, I created the project distroav-1337, which resulted in Firebase Hosting urls of:

• https://distroav-1337.web.app/
• https://distroav-1337.firebaseapp.com/

These urls look a little unofficial (aka: "sus").

I set up Firebase Hosting distroav-1337 to use the official distroav.org domain name.

I later [re-]discovered that Firebase Hosting supports multiple sites.
To my surprise it let me create a much less sus distroav hosting site:

• https://distroav.web.app/
• https://distroav.firebaseapp.com/ (So now I am even more curious why Firebase would not let me create a project named distroav.)

I moved distroav.org to be hosted by this second less-sus distroav site.

The point is that using these secondary hosting site affects how firebase hosting should be deployed.
Normally you would just deploy hosting with:

% firebase deploy --only hosting

With multiple sites you have to do it this way:

# Once; configure the hosting target name
# firebase target:apply hosting TARGET_NAME SITE_ID
% firebase target:apply hosting prod distroav
% firebase target:apply hosting dev distroav-1337

# Test Development
% firebase emulators:start --only firestore,functions,hosting:dev

# Deploy Development
% firebase deploy --only firestore,functions,hosting:dev

# Test Production
% firebase emulators:start --only firestore,functions,hosting:prod

# Deploy Production
% firebase deploy --only firestore,functions,hosting:prod

References:

• https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/full-config
• https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/multisites#set_up_deploy_targets
• https://fireship.io/lessons/deploy-multiple-sites-to-firebase-hosting/

Troublshooting

• If you are getting... TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'getTime') ...and you are running node v22, this is a known issue. Run nvm use 20 to use node v20.
  The .nvmrc in the project root is supposed to take care of this.