@davy_yg seems like you're trying to install an old version of node-sass which is no longer available on Github.
Try to open package.json file and update node-sass version to ^4.12.0.
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I am following this tutorial trying to configure laravel scout and when trying to npm install I get a list of errors:
D:\xampp72\htdocs\laravel_scout>npm install
> [email protected] install D:\xampp72\htdocs\laravel_scout\node_modules\node-sass
> node scripts/install.js
Downloading binary from https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v4.7.2/win32- x64-64_binding.node
Cannot download "https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v4.7.2/win32-x64-64_binding.node":
HTTP error 404 Not Found
Hint: If github.com is not accessible in your location
try setting a proxy via HTTP_PROXY, e.g.
export HTTP_PROXY=http://example.com:1234
or configure npm proxy via
npm config set proxy http://example.com:8080
> [email protected] postinstall D:\xampp72\htdocs\laravel_scout\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\uglifyjs-webpack-plugin
> node lib/post_install.js
> [email protected] postinstall D:\xampp72\htdocs\laravel_scout\node_modules\node-sass
> node scripts/build.js
Building: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe D:\xampp72\htdocs\laravel_scout\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js rebuild --verbose --libsass_ext= --libsass_cflags= --libsass_ldflags= --libsass_library=
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp verb cli [ 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe',
gyp verb cli 'D:\xampp72\htdocs\laravel_scout\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js',
gyp verb cli 'rebuild',
gyp verb cli '--verbose',
I have tried : npm update n -g and it does not works. Any clue why?
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