Standalone sass compiler: Can't find stylesheet to import

[m-nic]

I'm trying to use the standalone compiler for existing code that has style dependencies on a number of npm packages.
The command looks like:
sass --load-path=node_modules src/styles/app.scss public/app.css

I encounter the following error:
Error: Can't find stylesheet to import. @import "~/boostraps-sass/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap/variables"
I understand the ~ is not something specific to sass and some other posts mention it could be solved via custom importer, but that seems to be available only in the js api.
Is there a way to fix the issue without having to change the existing code?

Thank you!

[Goodwine]

Hi there! As you mentioned, you must use a custom Sass importer in order to make this work. The standalone Sass compiler doesn't support this feature.