sass: Could not find an option named "watch" error

I installed sass from npm globally npm install -g sass

Then from official documentation Doc link, I entered --watch command from my terminal. I am in the same directory where are the css and scss files are located. sass --watch main.scss main.css

Ang it gave me an error. Could not find an option named "watch".

Despite I have installed sass via npm globally ‘watch’ command is not recognizable by sass.

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments: 15 (5 by maintainers)

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@Alpsenel I got a similar issue for watching sass files. This is what I recommend:

check version of sass using sass --version (optional)
Uninstall sass using gem uninstall sass
Install version 3.4.0 using gem install sass -v 3.4.0 (note; latest stable version is 3.5.6)

acagastya on Mar 31, 2018

Any prediction of when the watch command will be implemented?

tassiogoncalves on May 10, 2018

The Sass website documentation was referring to Ruby Sass, which has been deprecated. Dart Sass, which you installed via npm, doesn’t yet support --watch (https://github.com/sass/dart-sass/issues/264).

I’ve updated the website to stop mentioning --watch until we have it implemented in Dart Sass.

nex3 on Apr 4, 2018