CSS file not generating using node-sass in Windows

Question

I am using node-sass to convert sass files to css but somehow its not creating css file in a folder. Please help me out with what I am doing wrong with the code.

My Folder structure is like -

And I have a main.scss file in css folder.

My index.js code is -

var fs = require('fs');
var sass = require('node-sass');

sass.render({
  file: './css/main.scss',
  outFile: './css/main.css',
}, function(err, result) { 
    if(err)
        throw err;
    console.log(result);
});

Though no error is thrown in the console but the css file is also not generating in CSS folder. Let me know what I am doing wrong here.

FYI - Here is the result output in console.

EDIT 1

I changed the code of index.js file to the following but still not working -

var fs = require('fs');
var sass = require('node-sass');

sass.render({
  file: './css/main.scss',
  outFile: 'css',
}, function(err, result) { 
    if(err)
        throw err;
    fs.writeFile(__dirname + '/css/', 'main.css', function(err){
        if(!err){
          //file written on disk
        }
      });
});

Answer 1

Checkout the node-sass docs for outFile:

Specify the intended location of the output file. Strongly recommended when outputting source maps so that they can properly refer back to their intended files.

Attention enabling this option will not write the file on disk for you, it's for internal reference purpose only (to generate the map for example).

So you need to manually write the output to disk:

sass.render({
    ...
    outFile: yourPathTotheFile,
  }, function(error, result) { // node-style callback from v3.0.0 onwards
    if(!error){
      // No errors during the compilation, write this result on the disk
      fs.writeFile(yourPathTotheFile, result.css, function(err){
        if(!err){
          //file written on disk
        }
      });
    }
  });
});