node-sass 3.3.3 does not seem to work on Node 4

[mikemaccana]

Per #1122, I am using the latest node-sass on the current stable node release.

However building fails on pangyp:

$ npm install --save node-sass@latest
npm WARN prefer global [email protected] should be installed with -g

> [email protected] install /var/www/myapp/node_modules/mylib/node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/install.js

Can not download file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sass/node-sass-binaries/v2.1.1/linux-x64-node-4.1/binding.node

> [email protected] install /var/www/myapp/node_modules/mylib/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/install.js

Binary downloaded and installed at /var/www/myapp/node_modules/mylib/node_modules/node-sass/vendor/linux-x64-46/binding.node

> [email protected] postinstall /var/www/myapp/node_modules/mylib/node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/build.js

module.js:338
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '/var/www/myapp/node_modules/mylib/node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/node-sass/node_modules/pangyp/bin/node-gyp'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:286:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:475:10)
    at startup (node.js:117:18)
    at node.js:951:3
Build failed

> [email protected] postinstall /var/www/myapp/node_modules/mylib/node_modules/spawn-sync
> node postinstall


> [email protected] postinstall /var/www/myapp/node_modules/mylib/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/build.js

` /var/www/myapp/node_modules/mylib/node_modules/node-sass/vendor/linux-x64-46/binding.node ` exists.
 testing binary.
Binary is fine; exiting.
[email protected] node_modules/node-sass/node_modules/ansi-regex -> node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/ansi-regex
[email protected] node_modules/node-sass/node_modules/ansi-styles -> node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/ansi-styles
[email protected] node_modules/node-sass/node_modules/has-ansi -> node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/has-ansi
[email protected] node_modules/node-sass/node_modules/nan -> node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/nan
[email protected] node_modules/node-sass/node_modules/object-assign -> node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/object-assign
[email protected] node_modules/node-sass/node_modules/strip-ansi -> node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/strip-ansi
[email protected] node_modules/node-sass/node_modules/supports-color -> node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/supports-color
[email protected] node_modules/node-sass/node_modules/chalk -> node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/chalk
[email protected] /var/www/myapp/node_modules/mylib
├─┬ [email protected]
│ └─┬ [email protected]
│   └─┬ [email protected]
│     └── [email protected]
├─┬ [email protected]
│ └─┬ [email protected]
│   └── [email protected]
├─┬ [email protected]
│ └─┬ [email protected]
│   └── [email protected]
├─┬ [email protected]
│ └─┬ [email protected]
│   └─┬ [email protected]
│     └── [email protected]
├─┬ [email protected]
│ └─┬ [email protected]
│   └── [email protected]
└─┬ [email protected]
  ├── [email protected]
  ├─┬ [email protected]
  │ ├─┬ [email protected]
  │ │ └─┬ [email protected]
  │ │   └─┬ [email protected]
  │ │     └── [email protected]
  │ └─┬ [email protected]
  │   └── [email protected]
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      │ │ └─┬ [email protected]
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      │ │   ├── [email protected]
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node-sass then complains it is doesn't have a working binary:

$ gulp
/var/www/myapp/node_modules/mylib/node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/node-sass/lib/index.js:22
    throw new Error('`libsass` bindings not found. Try reinstalling `node-sass`?');
    ^

Error: `libsass` bindings not found. Try reinstalling `node-sass`?
    at getBinding (/var/www/myapp/node_modules/mylib/node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/node-sass/lib/index.js:22:11)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/myapp/node_modules/mylib/node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/node-sass/lib/index.js:188:23)
    at Module._compile (module.js:434:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:452:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
    at require (module.js:384:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/myapp/node_modules/mylib/node_modules/gulp-sass/index.js:3:17)
    at Module._compile (module.js:434:26)

[Lothiraldan]

Same error here

[saper]

As one can see from the npm output you are getting node-sass 2.1.1, not 3.3.3. You need to update your project dependencies, since the newest gulp-sass uses the newest node-sass as well.

[mikemaccana]

Yep @saper you're correct: for anyone else that has this problem I had both 3.3.3 installed top level and 2.1.1 installed deeper in the same dependency tree. I cleaned out my tree and used npm v3 (which installs to the top level by default) to reduce the redundancy. Sorry for wasting your time!

[ericdiviney]

Could you elaborate more on how you "cleaned out your tree"? I seem to be having the same problem that you did, but I'm not sure what "cleaning out the tree" means.

Thanks!

[saper]

Could you elaborate more on how you "cleaned out your tree"? I seem to be having the same problem that you did, but I'm not sure what "cleaning out the tree" means.

Most probably "rm -rf node_modules" Did you try "npm rebuild node-sass" already?

[andfinally]

Thanks, cleaning out node_modules and reinstalling everything fixed it for me.

[saper]

@Lothiraldan clean your dependencies as indicated above.