I would like to use google web starter kit. I installed node.js v0.12.0, node-sass & gulp.
And then ran:
$ sudo npm install
When I typed gulp serve then got this error:
Using gulpfile ~/web-starter-kit/gulpfile.js Starting 'styles'... 'styles' errored after 93 ms
Error: `libsass` bindings not found. Try reinstalling `node-sass`? at getBinding
I reinstalled node and gulp but this doesn't help.
What should I do next?
I ran into this error using node 0.12.0 and it was fixed by deleting the existing /node_modules directory and running npm update.
If your node version is 4 and you are using gulp-sass, then try
npm uninstall --save-dev gulp-sass
npm install --save-dev gulp-sass@2
I found this useful command:
npm rebuild node-sass
From the rebuild documentation:
This is useful when you install a new version of node (or switch node versions), and must recompile all your C++ addons with the new node.js binary.
http://laravel.io/forum/10-29-2014-laravel-elixir-sass-error
I had the same issue:
The solution is to install node-sass version 2 which supports current versions of node. See https://github.com/sass/node-sass/issues/490#issuecomment-70388754
Run:
npm install node-sass@2
Then re-test:
$ npm ls node-sass
[email protected] /var/www/myapp
+-- [email protected]
$ gulp sass
[09:48:42] Using gulpfile /var/www/myapp/gulpfile.js
[09:48:42] Starting 'sass'...
[09:48:42] Finished 'sass' after 15 ms
You need to use the right version. Try:
nvm use 0.12
If you use Gulp then try:
npm install gulp-sass
I had the same problem and the gulp-sass package was the problem.
I removed all the /node_modules folder then ran npm install and it worked.
I have node v5.5.0, npm 3.3.12
I have same issue when gulp-sass version is 1.3.0, and fix it after upgrading to 2.1.0.
you may also want to npm remove gulp-sass and re-install gulp-sass if you've switched node versions.
This answer is a bit orthogonal to the the OP, but --
libsass bindings don't install properly with the node-sass wrapper on Node v4.0.0. I got the same error message as in the question (Error: 'libsass' bindings not found. Try reinstalling 'node-sass') but I ended up uninstalling Node v4.0.0 and installing v0.12.7 using nvm, via this script:
https://gist.github.com/brock/5b1b70590e1171c4ab54
and now libsass and node-sass are behaving properly.
If you came here because you upgraded nodejs systemwide & suddenly your emberjs ^1.13 app is failing with this message, make sure you're not using an outdated version of ember-cli-sass. You'll need to rm -rf node_modules bower_components dist tmp within the Ember app, then update your package.json with the appropriate ember-cli-sass version, and finally npm install --save-dev. This fixed it for me, without having to rebuild or change any other dependencies.
My issue was that I was on a machine with node version 0.12.2, but that had an old 1.x.x version of npm. Be sure to update your version of npm: sudo npm install -g npm Once that is done, remove any existing node-sass and reinstall it via npm.
i had the same problem today at work.
npm rebuild node-sass
done the job for me
npm rebuild node-sass was giving me errors (Ubuntu) and npm install gulp-sass didn't make the error go away.
Saw a solution on GitHub which worked for me:
npm uninstall --save-dev gulp-sass
npm install --save-dev gulp-sass
For me, this issue was caused in my build system (Travis CI) by doing something kind of dumb in my .travis.yml file. In effect, I was calling npm install before nvm use 0.12, and this was causing node-sass to be built for 0.10 instead of 0.12. My solution was simply moving nvm use out of the .travis.yml file’s before_script section to before the npm install command, which was in the before_install section.
In your case, it is likely that whatever process you are starting with gulp is using a different version of node (than what you would expect).
I had the same issue as @Kos had, only for some reason I had to modify the gulp-sass package from the old package.json file I had. It then installed the dependencies currently and now it finally works!
Downgrading Node to 0.10.36 should do it per this thread on the node-sass github page: https://github.com/sass/node-sass/issues/490#issuecomment-70388754
If you have NVM you can just:
nvm install 0.10
If you don't, you can find NVM and instructions here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nvm
Source: Stackoverflow.com