npm install throwing error in node-sass

Question

[email protected] install /home/user/Documents/project/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/install.js

WARN invalid config loglevel="notice"
Can not download file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sass/node-sass-binaries/v2.1.1/linux-x64-node-8.2/binding.node

> [email protected] postinstall /home/user/Documents/project/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/build.js

module.js:487
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '/home/user/Documents/project/node_modules/node-sass/node_modules/pangyp/bin/node-gyp'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:485:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:437:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:605:10)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:158:16)
    at bootstrap_node.js:575:3
Build failed
added 2186 packages in 42.166s

I tried so far:

npm rebuild

npm rebuild node-sass

npm uninstall -g node-sass

rm -rf node_module

Answer 1

1. Remove 'node-sass' dependency from your package.json
2. run npm install
3. run npm i sass
4. run npm start

You're ready to go! :)

Answer 2

node-sass has minimum dependency according to the version of node installed in your system. You can find out the minimum version required here

Answer 3

by using yarn run:

yarn add node-sass