Is Visual Studio really required?

A few days ago I was able to install gulp-sass and socketio modules without any problem, but what I want to mention is that I haven’t had to install Visual Studio. Right now I’m on a fresh Windows 8.1 (64bit) and there is that warning about missing Visual Studio.

I have two questions:

• Is there any alternative to Visual Studio? I am asking because VS 2013 is solving the problem, but also making very big mess on my computer:

• What was that on my previous OS that allowed me to install those modules without a trouble? There must be something, I just can’t install all this MS stuff, if it was only one program, not 100 of them, then problem would be solved.

Please help me.

[a0viedo]

I would suggest opening a new issue @simmani5

[simmani5]

I found same problem . after install free MS Visuals studio 2019 . I saw install node js during install MS Visual Studio 2019 … so I thout it cause some proble. to me. but any way install done . and I did not use MS VS2019 but…

im tried intsall git clone [e-mail]:andrew/node-sass-example.git cd node-sass-example npm install (((=== Error here ))) node server.js open http://localhost:8000

I think it cause VS 2019 setup . may be… debug.log === under ===here=== 4778 verbose pkgid node-sass@3.13.1 4779 verbose cwd D:_hom\github\andrew\node-sass-example 4780 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.17763 4781 verbose argv “D:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js” “install” 4782 verbose node v10.16.0 4783 verbose npm v6.9.0 4784 error code ELIFECYCLE 4785 error errno 1 4786 error node-sass@3.13.1 postinstall: node scripts/build.js 4786 error Exit status 1 4787 error Failed at the node-sass@3.13.1 postinstall script. 4787 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above. 4788 verbose exit [ 1, true ]