ferrybrouwer / node-sass-patch

Gulp sass dependency node-sass package module patch for node v0.11.13 and v0.11.14

gulp-sass dependency node-sass patch (node v0.11.13 and v0.11.14)

@dlmanning has created a gulp sass plugin based on node-sass. When installing gulp-sass with node package manager, dependency modules are installed as well. Dependency module node-sass triggers an error in node version v0.11.13 and v0.11.14 when it fails to download the libsass binding.node.

The error looks like this:

/node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/node-sass/lib/index.js:21  
    throw new Error('`libsass` bindings not found. Try reinstalling `node-sass   
      ^

Patch

Node-sass contains pre-compiled binaries. The patch disable the binding connection when installing the dependencies of node-sass. When all dependencies are installed correctly the patch enables the binding again and tries to rebuild the binaries. After all binaries are rebuild, the files are copied to the gulp-sass dependency module node-sass.

Before using the patch

The patch uses Q node package module for using the promises. Make sure you've installed the package before running the patch. You can install Q by running $ npm install q --save-dev.

Run the patch

When gulp-sass is installed you can run the patch rebuild-node-sass/rebuild-node-sass.js in a node environment, for instance $ node ./rebuild-node-sass/rebuild-node-sass.js

package.json

When you want this patch to run automatically after the npm install command, you can use the postinstall hook. The postinstall script hook is called after all package modules are installed. An Example:

{  
  "name": "package-name",  
  "version": "1.0.0",  
  "scripts": {  
    "postinstall": "node ./rebuild-node-sass/rebuild-node-sass.js"  
  },  
  "engines": {  
    "node": "0.11.x"  
  },  
  "devDependencies": {  
    "gulp": "^3.8.10",  
    "gulp-autoprefixer": "^2.0.0",   
    "gulp-sass": "^1.2.4",  
    "gulp-sourcemaps": "^1.3.0",  
    "q": "^1.1.2"  
  }
}