Loading sass.js tasks...ERROR

[ericabiz]

Hi,

I'm on Mac OS X Yosemite and having the same issue as described in #209. I tried all of the fixes listed and could not get anything to work. I even tried uninstalling everything and installing node v0.10.33, and going through the whole setup for FoundationPress again. That did not work either.

I noticed the issue was closed, so has there been any resolution on this?

erica@[/Volumes/asz/wp-content/themes/asz]$ grunt build
Loading "sass.js" tasks...ERROR

Error: libsass bindings not found. Try reinstalling node-sass?
Warning: Task "sass" not found. Use --force to continue.

This all worked fine on my last FoundationPress site, but with this new one I haven't managed to get it working at all.

[olefredrik]

Hi Erica,

If you have the latest version of node installed (0.12.0), that should be fully compatible with the latest version of FoundationPress.

Check which version you are using by typing node -v in your terminal. It should echo v.0.12.0. When you have assured that you're using the latest node version, clone the FoundationPress repo to a folder on your harddrive and run a npm install && bower install && grunt build . This should work. Please report back if you have any problems.

Cheers,
Ole Fredrik

[AdamChlan]

If we upgrade node to the latest version, will we have issue compiling older FoundationPress projects?

[olefredrik]

@AdamChlan : I would say yes and no. For older FoundationPress projects you will need to update the package.json file with the following config (if you run node v.0.12.0)

{
  "name": "foundationpress",
  "version": "5.5.1",
  "devDependencies": {
    "node-sass" : "~2.0.1",
    "grunt": "~0.4.1",
    "grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.5.3",
    "grunt-sass": "~0.18.0",
    "grunt-contrib-copy": "~0.4.1",
    "grunt-contrib-concat": "~0.3.0",
    "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.2.7",
    "grunt-string-replace": "~0.2.7"
  },
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "https://github.com/olefredrik/FoundationPress.git"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "time-grunt": "^1.1.0"
  }
} 

Save the package.json file, open your terminal, navigate to the theme folder and run a npm install && bower install && grunt build and you should be good to go.

[ericabiz]

I just tried this whole thing on a new Digital Ocean instance (instead of locally on my Mac) and it just worked. I will dig into further incompatibilities on my Mac today.

[ericabiz]

Wow. Okay, so it works now! Here's what I did:

I re-upgraded to Node 0.12.2 (latest) using the Mac package
I created a new directory locally, under my home directory
I re-cloned the git repo, ran all 5 commands to install FoundationPress starting with npm install -g grunt-cli

The last command was grunt build, which worked!

I then just copied my working new install, completely overwriting the broken install. The broken install was a mounted volume on WP Engine (I'm using Transmit to mount a SFTP folder as a drive, so I can actually work on the server live.)

The copy finished, I ran grunt build and it worked!

I'm still not sure where the error was, but it seems a complete reinstall of everything was the charm. :)

As a side note, Transmit is great for being able to work directly on the server, and mounting a SFTP folder from a host on a drive, but don't try to run "npm install" etc. directly on the server that way--it takes FOREVER! Run everything locally first, then just copy all the files over and run grunt watch on the server. Saves an hour or so. ;)

[olefredrik]

I'm glad that it worked out :)

[nsberrow]

I had this error, was driving me crazy. Tried uninstalling, installing Node, in the end after 3 days of frustration it came down to the foundation.scss file, I added a custom scss and for some reason it was breaking the run build and prevented me to run watch.

Try that, see if that prevents your error.

[Aetles]

Just a FYI: when I got the Error: libsass bindings not found. Try reinstalling node-sass while running npm install a npm rebuild node-sass solved it.

[phylaxis]

I'm getting this error after upgrading to OS X 10.11 El Capitan. I attempted the reinstalling node-sass and it ran without errors. But I'm still seeing this:

Loading "sass.js" tasks...ERROR
>> Error: The `libsass` binding was not found in /Users/phylaxis/Sites/macobserver/tmo_wp/wp-content/themes/Observer/node_modules/grunt-sass/node_modules/node-sass/vendor/darwin-x64-46/binding.node
>> This usually happens because your node version has changed.
>> Run `npm rebuild node-sass` to build the binding for your current node version.

I checked my Node version running a node -v, but I get 'v4.2.1' which is the latest on the Mac. I'm confused because in this thread it says '0.12.2' is the latest?

[arielnoname]

@phylaxis check this #209 (comment)

[phylaxis]

Thanks, but that didn't make any difference for me. Running node 0.10.33 yielded the same error

[phylaxis]

@arielnoname Ok. Got it working now. I realized I had already followed the instructions from @olefredrik to "fix" the package.son file to work with node 0.12.0. So I just followed your instructions, but did an nvm install 0.12.0 and now things are working. Thanks for the help.

@olefredrik any chance on getting FoundationPress to play nice with the latest version of Node.js?