Node Sass couldn't find a binding for your current environment

Question

I am having issues building an app because node-sass keeps failing with the error.

ERROR in Missing binding /Users/warren/Sites/random-docs/my-cms/nod

Answer 1

A similar error I encountered with Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition while having created an AspNetCore app was:

Node Sass could not find a binding for your current environment: Windows 32-bit with Node.js 5.x
Found bindings for the following environments:
  - Windows 64-bit with Node.js 6.x
This usually happens because your environment has changed since running `npm install`.
Run `npm rebuild node-sass` to build the binding for your current environment.
    at module.exports ([..]\node_modules\node-sass\lib\binding.js:15:13)
    at Object. ([..]\node_modules\node-sass\lib\index.js:14:35)
    at Module._compile (module.js:397:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:404:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object. ([..]\node_modules\gulp-sass\index.js:187:21)
    at Module._compile (module.js:397:26)

You can see the from the error above that the cause was from a version mismatch on the bindings for nodejs.

Node Sass could not find a binding for your current environment: Windows 32-bit with Node.js 5.x

Found bindings for the following environments: - Windows 64-bit with Node.js 6.x

The solution I found was to

• Install the nodejs windows version,
• Add path for node js (C:\Program Files\nodejs) in External Web Tools (see Rob Scott's answer),
• Move nodejs path above $(PATH).