npm install throwing error in node-sass

Question

node-sass@2.1.1 install /home/user/Documents/project/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/install.js

WARN invalid config loglevel="notice"
Can not download file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sass/node-sass-binaries/v2.1.1/linux-x64-node-8.2/binding.node

> node-sass@2.1.1 postinstall /home/user/Documents/project/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/build.js

module.js:487
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '/home/user/Documents/project/node_modules/node-sass/node_modules/pangyp/bin/node-gyp'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:485:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:437:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:605:10)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:158:16)
    at bootstrap_node.js:575:3
Build failed
added 2186 packages in 42.166s

I tried so far:

npm rebuild

npm rebuild node-sass

npm uninstall -g node-sass

rm -rf node_module

Answer 1

The minimum version with Node 8 support is 4.5.3. Offhand, I don't think 2.x will support anything above Node 0.12, which is EOL.

Answer 2

You need to do next steps and it should work:

rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json 
npm install --saveDev node-sass@4.5.3 
npm install

Voila :)