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Why do I receive an error when I try to run node-sass as package.json script using npm?

I have this package.json:

{
  "name": "natours",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Landing page for natours",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "compile:sass": "node-sass sass/main.scss css/style.css -w"
  },
  "author": "Robert",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "node-sass": "^6.0.0"
  }
}

When I try to run npm run compile:sass it gives me this error:

Error

It worked for a while, but I updated the node version.

Also, if I run this command:

node-sass sass/main.scss css/style.css

From the command line, it works.

  • Node version: 14.17.0
  • npm version: 6.14.13
  • node-sass version: 6.0.0
Solution

  • To fix this I uninstalled node-sass using this commands:

    npm uninstall -S node-sass
npm uninstall -D node-sass
npm uninstall -g node-sass

    And then install it again globally, using:

    npm install -g node-sass

    Before installing globally, I tried to install it with -D flag to add it to dependencies or -S flag to add it to devDependencies but it still didn't work, not sure why.

    Maybe it's an incompatibility between npm and node-sass versions. I believe it can also be fixed using nvm.