Importing Sass through npm

Question

Currently in our Sass files we have something like the following:

@import "../../node_modules/some-module/sass/app";

This is bad, because we're not actually sure of the path: it could be ../node_modules, it could be ../../../../../node_modules, because of how npm installs stuff.

Is there a way in Sass that we can search up until we find node_modules? Or even a proper way of including Sass through npm?

Answer 1

If you are looking for a handy answer in 2017 and are using Webpack, this was the easiest I found.

Suppose your module path is like:

node_modules/some-module/sass/app

Then in your main scss file you can use:

@import "~some-module/sass/app";

Tilde operator shall resolve any import as a module.