Error: File to import not found or unreadable: ~bootstrap/scss/bootstrap
I followed the instructions at getbootstrap.com thinking that everything would just work. It isn't so far :\
Everything seems to be fine until I try to load the page, at which point my Express.js app throws the error
[[sass] error: File to import not found or unreadable: ~bootstrap/scss/bootstrap.
Parent style sheet: .../sass/app.scss at options.error (.../node-sass/lib/index.js:291:26)
I have tried npm install, restarting my server, looking on Google, StackOverflow (yes, I know there are quite a few similar questions, but none of them answer my question), the Bootstrap 4 GitHub issue pages and so far I haven't been able to come up with the answer.
Could it be that I installed the dependencies in the wrong place? (Dev instead of production or vis-à-vis)
Why am I getting this error??
My webpack.config.js file looks like this...
module.exports = {
entry: './src/index.js',
output: {
path: __dirname + '/public',
filename: 'bundle.js'
},
module: {
loaders: [
{
test: /\.json$/,
loader: 'json-loader'
},
{
test: /\.js$/,
loader: 'babel-loader'
},
{
test: /\.(scss)$/,
use: [{
loader: 'style-loader', // inject CSS to page
}, {
loader: 'css-loader', // translate CSS into CommonJS modules
}, {
loader: 'postcss-loader', // run post CSS actions
options: {
plugins: function () { // post css plugins, can be exported to postcss.config.js
return [
require('precss'),
require('autoprefixer')
];
}
}
}, {
loader: 'sass-loader' // compile Sass to CSS
}]
}
]
}
};
My package.json file
...
"scripts": {
"start": "nodemon --exec babel-node server.js --ignore public/",
"dev": "webpack -wd",
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},
"dependencies": {
"axios": "^0.17.1",
"bootstrap": "^4.0.0",
"ejs": "^2.5.7",
"express": "^4.16.2",
"jquery": "^3.3.1",
"mongoose": "^5.0.0",
"node-sass-middleware": "^0.11.0",
"popper.js": "^1.12.9",
"precss": "^3.1.0",
"react": "^16.2.0",
"react-dom": "^16.2.0"
},
"devDependencies": {
"autoprefixer": "^7.2.5",
"babel-cli": "^6.26.0",
"babel-eslint": "^8.2.1",
"babel-loader": "^7.1.2",
"babel-preset-env": "^1.6.1",
"babel-preset-react": "^6.24.1",
"babel-preset-stage-2": "^6.24.1",
"css-loader": "^0.28.9",
"eslint": "^4.15.0",
"eslint-plugin-react": "^7.5.1",
"node-sass": "^4.7.2",
"nodemon": "^1.14.11",
"postcss-loader": "^2.0.10",
"sass-loader": "^6.0.6",
"style-loader": "^0.19.1",
"webpack": "^3.10.0"
}
}
postcss.config.js
module.exports = {
plugins: [
require('autoprefixer')
]
};
and inside app.scss I have
@import "custom";
@import "~bootstrap/scss/bootstrap";
When Sass is precompiled by its own CLI, it processes @imports
by itself, and sometimes thus doesn’t understand ~
notation. So you can import "node_modules/bootstrap/scss/bootstrap";
in first place and replaced the ~
notation with node_modules/
instead.
I had a similar error
File to import not found or unreadable: node_modules/bootstrap-sass/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap
Just add "bootstrap-sass": "^3.3.7", to devDependencies at yours package.json, ad run npm update, npm install in your project directory.
For me, I had to change the way I was importing
@import '../../../node_modules/bootstrap/scss/bootstrap';
Then it works
I am not using webpack, but I got the same error when I try to import bootstrap in my scss file like this:
@import 'bootstrap';
It would work if I just import it like this in my case:
@import "../../../../../bootstrap/scss/bootstrap";
But since That is not clean enough to my liking, I found out I could alter my gulp scss task from:
.pipe(plugins.sass())
to:
.pipe(plugins.sass({
outputStyle: 'nested',
precision: 3,
errLogToConsole: true,
includePaths: ['node_modules/bootstrap/scss']
}))
(notice the includePaths section) and now I can just use
@import 'bootstrap';
In my scss file