Node Sass on M-chip Apple

This week was the first time in my life working on an arm64 based Apple computer, an M3 silicon. So, naturally, while setting up my development environment I stumbled upon some things I hadn’t known before. In this case:

• node supports the arm64 architecture of M-chips only from version 16.3 upwards, so one of our old projects running on node@14 was due for an upgrade
• node-sass is deprecated, also doesn’t support arm64 and should be upgraded to sass

However, we didn’t have time to do that. So for quickly getting older projects to run, we needed to run them in a terminal that can run x86_64 code. In MacOS this is called a Rosetta console and this is how you can enable it:

• Go to Finder > Applications
• Search for Terminal
• Right click > Get Info
• Check Open using Rosetta

That’s it!