dead-deps — what happened to your dependencies

Is node-sass still maintained?

No — node-sass stopped being maintained around July 2024. sass is the same idea rebuilt from scratch.

Status
No longer maintained
Last maintained
July 2024
Use instead
sass — on npm
Succession
Reimplementation
Drop-in
no — expect code changes
Confidence
high

What should I use instead of node-sass?

sass is the same idea rebuilt from scratch. sass is not a drop-in replacement, so expect to change call sites.

How to migrate from node-sass to sass

Replace node-sass with sass in devDependencies. Integrations such as sass-loader and gulp-sass accept it through an implementation option, and the modern JS entry points are compile/compileString rather than render.

Why node-sass is on this list

node-sass is a binding to LibSass, the C++ Sass implementation, which the Sass team deprecated in 2020. In July 2024 the Sass team declared node-sass end-of-life; the npm package carries a deprecation notice pointing at sass and sass-embedded, and the repository is archived. Dart Sass, published as sass, is the reference implementation and the only one that receives new language features.

The succession is settled: primary sources agree and the ecosystem has already moved.

node-sass alternatives

Beyond the primary recommendation, these are credible for node-sass's use case:

Check your own project for node-sass

npx dead-deps --all --min-state unmaintained

Run that in the directory holding your lockfile. If node-sass is anywhere in your tree — a direct dependency or buried under something else — it appears in the report with this verdict, this successor and the same evidence links, alongside anything else that has stopped moving. Nothing is uploaded; the scan reads your lockfile locally and queries public registry metadata.

Exit code 1 means something was flagged, which makes npx dead-deps --min-state deprecated usable as a CI gate. See how verdicts are produced.

Evidence

Every claim on this page traces to a primary source. Check them:

See the full index of covered packages, or read the methodology for how a verdict is reached and why a quiet package is not a dead one.