Synchronizing node version with your environment in Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio 2017 is official finally out and Microsoft did a tremendous job in listening to their user base. They simplified the install process, enhanced the speed of the load of the projects, enhanced their IntelliSense and debugging tools to say the least. If you have not tried it yet, go and grab yourself a copy today! The community edition is free and is available to everyone! On that note, one may remember the nodejs binding problem that would occur in Visual Studio 2015 when it comes to gulp and node-sass

Error: Missing binding PATH_TO_YOUR_PROJECT\node_modules\gulp-sass\node_modules\node-sass\vendor\win64-x64-51\binding.node
Node Sass could not find a binding for your current environment: Windows 64-bit with Node.js 7.x
Found bindings for the following environments:
  - Windows 64-bit with Node.js 5.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 Object.<anonymous> (PATH_TO_YOUR_PROJECT\node_modules\gulp-sass\node_modules\node-sass\lib\index.js:15:11)
    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.<anonymous> (PATH_TO_YOUR_PROJECT\node_modules\gulp-sass\index.js:187:21)
    at Module._compile (module.js:397:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:404:10)

Error: Missing binding PATH_TO_YOUR_PROJECT\node_modules\gulp-sass\node_modules\node-sass\vendor\win64-x64-51\binding.node

Node Sass could not find a binding for your current environment: Windows 64-bit with Node.js 7.x

Found bindings for the following environments:

- Windows 64-bit with Node.js 5.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 Object.<anonymous> (PATH_TO_YOUR_PROJECT\node_modules\gulp-sass\node_modules\node-sass\lib\index.js:15:11)

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.<anonymous> (PATH_TO_YOUR_PROJECT\node_modules\gulp-sass\index.js:187:21)

at Module._compile (module.js:397:26)

at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:404:10)

This happens because Visual Studio has a set of paths that are searched to find node/npm etc. By default Visual Studio 2017 comes with Node 5.4.1 and npm 3.3.4 shipped. As…

March 12, 2017 | by Dominique St-Amand | Leave a comment

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A way to manage nodejs and npm on windows

For the ones starting with NodeJS and NPM on windows, you probably are asking yourself how to update those when a security flaw is found or when a new version comes out. There is a way. Updating NPM You can update NPM by using npm-windows-upgrade If you want to skip all the reading of their page, here’s the parts that you need to know (excerpt from the page): First, ensure that you can execute scripts on your system by running the following command from an elevated PowerShell. To run PowerShell as Administrator, click Start, search for PowerShell, right-click PowerShell and select Run as Administrator.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser -Force

1	Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser -Force

Then, to install and use this upgrader tool, run (also from an elevated PowerShell or…

January 3, 2017 | by Dominique St-Amand | 1 Comment

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