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SASS not working after updating NPM or Gulp

Recently ran into a fucked up issue, where a new collaborator on my project cloned the project onto their computer, ran npm install to install all dependencies, only to find that sass was not completing in gulp.

The SASS processor actually started, but simply wouldn’t finish.

SASS not running

After much troubleshooting, the conclusion was due to some dependency conflict.

After another round of hair pulling troubleshooting, I received the much dreaded: libsass bindings not found. Try reinstalling node-sass error.

In the past, reinstalling node-sass would have solved it, but turns out the problem was with the current version of Ionic, it only supported a specific version of gulp-sass.

If I ran npm ls node-sass

I would see:

The solution

Edit package.json, and change all includes of gulp-sass to version ^2.0.4

Re-install the dependency with npm

And running gulp now should have no errors, and correctly finish processing the sass method.

You’re welcome.