Installing node-sass fails on Mac with M1

[gavinhughes]

I recently switched to Apple M1 and now getting errors on npm install node-sass. Not sure whether this has anything to do with M1, but haven't been able to identify any other reason.

• NPM version (npm -v): 7.24.0
• Node version (node -v): v16.10.0
• Node Process (node -p process.versions):
  {
  node: '16.10.0',
  v8: '9.3.345.19-node.14',
  uv: '1.42.0',
  zlib: '1.2.11',
  brotli: '1.0.9',
  ares: '1.17.2',
  modules: '93',
  nghttp2: '1.45.1',
  napi: '8',
  llhttp: '6.0.2',
  openssl: '1.1.1l',
  cldr: '39.0',
  icu: '69.1',
  tz: '2021a',
  unicode: '13.0'
  }
• Node Platform (node -p process.platform): darwin
• Node architecture (node -p process.arch): arm64
• node-sass version (node -p "require('node-sass').info"):
  node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:936
  throw err;
  ^
  Error: Cannot find module 'node-sass'
  Require stack:
• /Users/gavinhughes/.npm/_logs/[eval]
  at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:933:15)
  at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:778:27)
  at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19)
  at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
  at [eval]:1:1
  at Script.runInThisContext (node:vm:129:12)
  at Object.runInThisContext (node:vm:305:38)
  at node:internal/process/execution:81:19
  at [eval]-wrapper:6:22
  at evalScript (node:internal/process/execution:80:60) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [ '/Users/gavinhughes/.npm/_logs/[eval]' ]
  }
• npm node-sass versions (npm ls node-sass):
  /Users/gavinhughes/.npm/_logs
  └── (empty)

4512 info run node-sass@4.14.1 postinstall node_modules/node-sass node scripts/build.js
4513 info run node-sass@4.14.1 postinstall { code: 1, signal: null }
4514 timing reify:rollback:createSparse Completed in 459ms
4515 timing reify:rollback:retireShallow Completed in 0ms
4516 timing command:install Completed in 61942ms
4517 verbose stack Error: command failed
4517 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/promise-spawn/index.js:64:27)
4517 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:390:28)
4517 verbose stack     at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1064:16)
4517 verbose stack     at Socket.<anonymous> (node:internal/child_process:450:11)
4517 verbose stack     at Socket.emit (node:events:390:28)
4517 verbose stack     at Pipe.<anonymous> (node:net:672:12)
4518 verbose pkgid node-sass@4.14.1
4519 verbose cwd /Users/gavinhughes/dev/sandbox/counter/assets
4520 verbose Darwin 20.6.0
4521 verbose argv "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/16.10.0/bin/node" "/opt/homebrew/bin/npm" "install" "node-sass"
4522 verbose node v16.10.0
4523 verbose npm  v7.24.0
4524 error code 1
4525 error path /Users/gavinhughes/dev/sandbox/counter/assets/node_modules/node-sass
4526 error command failed
4527 error command sh -c node scripts/build.js
4528 error Building: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/16.10.0/bin/node /Users/gavinhughes/dev/sandbox/counter/assets/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js rebuild --verbose --libsass_ext= --libsass_cflags= --libsass_ldflags= --libsass_library=
4528 error   c++ '-DNODE_GYP_MODULE_NAME=libsass' '-DUSING_UV_SHARED=1' '-DUSING_V8_SHARED=1' '-DV8_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS=1' '-DV8_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS' '-DV8_IMMINENT_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS' '-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1' '-D_DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE=1' '-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE' '-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' '-DLIBSASS_VERSION="3.5.5"' -I/Users/gavinhughes/.node-gyp/16.10.0/include/node -I/Users/gavinhughes/.node-gyp/16.10.0/src -I/Users/gavinhughes/.node-gyp/16.10.0/deps/openssl/config -I/Users/gavinhughes/.node-gyp/16.10.0/deps/openssl/openssl/include -I/Users/gavinhughes/.node-gyp/16.10.0/deps/uv/include -I/Users/gavinhughes/.node-gyp/16.10.0/deps/zlib -I/Users/gavinhughes/.node-gyp/16.10.0/deps/v8/include -I../src/libsass/include  -O3 -gdwarf-2 -mmacosx-version-min=10.7 -arch arm64 -Wall -Wendif-labels -W -Wno-unused-parameter -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ -fno-strict-aliasing -MMD -MF ./Release/.deps/Release/obj.target/libsass/src/libsass/src/ast.o.d.raw   -c -o Release/obj.target/libsass/src/libsass/src/ast.o ../src/libsass/src/ast.cpp

[nschonni]

M1 support is being tracked in #3033, but you're just running an incompatible combo https://github.com/sass/node-sass#node-version-support-policy

[dimit999]

@nschonni hi
which combination need to use?

i use
node -v v14.0.0
node-sass. 4.14.1
npm -v 6.14.6
nvm -v 0.39.1

the same issue npm ERR! Failed at the node-sass@4.14.1 postinstall script.

• i used others combination according to this table https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-sass

[priscila225]

npm ERR! Failed at the node-sass@4.14.1 postinstall script.

I had the same issue as you, for me the only way to solve was this :

npm uninstall node-sass
npm install --save-dev sass

[tab58]

I've used this command with some success: npm install node-sass@npm:sass

[akbarjon2000]

I tried everything you have tried but still not working

[aryanrb]

use npm i sass instead of node-sass

[nkb-bd]

Remove node saas use sass
yarn add -D sass, worked for me

[Edith-finch]

npm install node-sass@npm:sass

That's useful~ thanks !

[actlikeadam]

In case someone is still having troubles with this, to me the solution has been to install Python2, delete node_modules folder and re-create it.

Phyton2: 2.7.18
Node-sass: 4.14.1
Node: 14.21.3
Chip: M1