Hi! I’m new to Hugo and looking to develop a site from scratch (not using a prebuilt theme) to learn the ins and outs of Hugo. However, I’ve already hit a hurdle. I read that Hugo is using libsass but of course this is now outdated so was looking to set up dartsass going forward. I’ve added a sass …

[image] Harry-Gardiner: sass --embedded is unavailable in pure JS mode. The line above from the hugo env output points to the problem. Solution Install Dart Sass using one of the methods described here: https://gohugo.io/functions/resources/tocss/#dart-sass To verify installation and path …

Are you able to view Dart Sass by hugo env ?

Hi @panchtatvam I get the following hugo v0.122.0-b9a03bd59d5f71a529acb3e33f995e0ef332b3aa+extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate=2024-01-26T15:54:24Z VendorInfo=brew GOOS="darwin" GOARCH="amd64" GOVERSION="go1.21.6" sass --embedded is unavailable in pure JS mode. github.com/sass/libsass="3.6.5" github.c…

Dart Sass should have been a listed transpiler . What method did you use for Dart Sass installation ? It seems Hugo is unable to find Dart Sass.

The error message refers to a program, not to a .js file. See the dartsass intro: Sass: Dart Sass Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets OTOH, if you’re not using all of SASS’s features, perhaps CSS is sufficient?

Installed dart ages ago. Would have been one of these 2 methods npm install -g sass or brew install sass/sass/sass

You could try re-installing Dart Sass and check again with Hugo. Should be a minor integration issue. Hugo should be able to show Dart Sass as an active transpiler when running hugo env

There’s a detailed description available here: [image] Using the Dart Sass transpiler tips & tricks Last updated: 2023-06-22T17:38:47-07:00 This information is now included in the Hugo documentation . The extended version of Hugo includes LibSass to transpil…

Thanks @chrillek This is the same information thats in the Hugo docs. Just cant figure out why Hugo cant see my Dart Sass PATH. Maybe I will consider using vanilla css, will miss @mixins though

There’s also this [image] Help with Dart Sass installation on Mac support Hmm I seem to have trouble as well installing Dart Sass my-project on  master [!?] via  v18.17.1 via gem v2.7.4 on cloud took 37s ❯ hugo env hugo v0.119.0-b84644c008e0dc2c4b67bd69cccf87a41a03937e…

My which sass points to /Users/XXXX/.nvm/versions/node/v12.21.0/bin/sass Which I believe is correct. Ill keep playing with this when I get some time and see if I can resolve.

Error building site: TOCSS-Dart

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chrillek January 31, 2024, 9:14am 8

There’s a detailed description available here:

(found that using the forum search …)

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