missing script: scss when a styles.scss file is already here

[antoinecomp]

Hi there ! I am new to nodejs packet manager. I am following a Coursera MOOC on Bootstrap4 from the University of Hong Kong.

I'm opening this issue because:

• npm is crashing.
• npm is doing something I don't understand.

What's going wrong?

I wrote a styles.scss file to learn about scss.
After adding "scss": "node-sass -o css/ css/" to the package.json file, I tried to run npm run scss from my css floder after installing the node module to support the compilation of the Scss file to a CSS file. It gave me th following error :

mike@mike-thinks:~/Bootstrap4/conFusion/css$ npm run scss
npm ERR! Linux 4.10.0-42-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "run" "scss"
npm ERR! node v4.2.6
npm ERR! npm  v3.5.2

npm ERR! missing script: scss
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
npm ERR!     <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/mike/Bootstrap4/conFusion/css/npm-debug.log

The npm-debug.log content is :

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/nodejs', '/usr/bin/npm', 'run', 'scss' ]
2 info using npm@3.5.2
3 info using node@v4.2.6
4 verbose stack Error: missing script: scss
4 verbose stack     at run (/usr/share/npm/lib/run-script.js:147:19)
4 verbose stack     at /usr/share/npm/lib/run-script.js:57:5
4 verbose stack     at /usr/share/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:345:5
4 verbose stack     at checkBinReferences_ (/usr/share/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:309:45)
4 verbose stack     at final (/usr/share/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:343:3)
4 verbose stack     at then (/usr/share/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:113:5)
4 verbose stack     at /usr/share/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:300:12
4 verbose stack     at /usr/share/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:76:16
4 verbose stack     at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (fs.js:380:3)
5 verbose cwd /home/mike/Bootstrap4/conFusion/css
6 error Linux 4.10.0-42-generic
7 error argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "run" "scss"
8 error node v4.2.6
9 error npm  v3.5.2
10 error missing script: scss
11 error If you need help, you may report this error at:
11 error     <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>
12 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

How can the CLI team reproduce the problem?

You can reproduce the problem by cloning my repository dedicated to Bootstrap 4 learning.

supporting information:

• npm -v prints: 3.5.2
• node -v prints: v4.2.6
• npm config get registry prints: https://registry.npmjs.org/
• Windows, OS X/macOS, or Linux?: Linux 16.04

[kenany]

Ensure that the "scss" script is listed under "scripts", not "devDependencies". See below:

{
  "name": "confusion",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "This is a website for Ristorante Con Fusion",
  "main": "index.html",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "npm run lite",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "lite": "lite-server",
    "scss": "node-sass -o css/ css/"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "lite-server": "^2.2.2",
    "node-sass": "^4.7.2"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "bootstrap": "^4.0.0-alpha.6",
    "font-awesome": "^4.7.0"
  }
}

[antoinecomp]

Thank you that was the answer, sorry, I was a beginner at this time.