ionic serve is not working after upgrading node.js and ionic - node.js

Question

I upgraded node.js and npm and did an npm install and now I'm getting the message below. The thing is, I have been working on the application for about a year and gulp-sass is installed (it's what I use to upgrade my sass files) so it is clearly do to the upgrade, but I'm not sure how to get everything to work again, sort of downgrading everything again.
$ ionic serve
Uh oh! Looks like you're missing a module in your gulpfile:
Cannot find module 'gulp-sass'
Do you need to run `npm install`?
When I try npm install gulp-sass:
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents#^1.0.0 (node_modules\chokidar\node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents#1.0.17: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'E:\xampp\htdocs\cgf\rcredits-mobile\node_modules\gulp-minify-css\package.json'
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'E:\xampp\htdocs\cgf\rcredits-mobile\node_modules\karma-junit-reporter\package.json'
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'E:\xampp\htdocs\cgf\rcredits-mobile\node_modules\karma-mocha-reporter\package.json'
npm WARN rcreditsmobile#1.1.1 No repository field.
npm WARN rcreditsmobile#1.1.1 No license field.
npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.14393
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Users\\Public\\Programs\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\Someone\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "gulp-sass" "--save"
npm ERR! node v6.9.5
npm ERR! npm v4.2.0
npm ERR! path E:\xampp\htdocs\cgf\rcredits-mobile\node_modules\node-sass
npm ERR! code EPERM
npm ERR! errno -4048
npm ERR! syscall rename
npm ERR! Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename 'E:\xampp\htdocs\cgf\rcredits-mobile\node_modules\node-sass' -> 'E:\xampp\htdocs\cgf\rcredits-mobile\node_modules\.node-sass.DELETE'
npm ERR! at moveAway (C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\lib\install\action\finalize.js:42:5)
npm ERR! at destStatted (C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\lib\install\action\finalize.js:31:7)
npm ERR! at C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\graceful-fs\polyfills.js:287:18
npm ERR! at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15)
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename 'E:\xampp\htdocs\cgf\rcredits-mobile\node_modules\node-sass' -> 'E:\xampp\htdocs\cgf\rcredits-mobile\node_modules\.node-sass.DELETE'
npm ERR! at Error (native)
npm ERR! { Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename 'E:\xampp\htdocs\cgf\rcredits-mobile\node_modules\node-sass' -> 'E:\xampp\htdocs\cgf\rcredits-mobile\node_modules\.node-sass.DELETE'
npm ERR! at moveAway (C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\lib\install\action\finalize.js:42:5)
npm ERR! at destStatted (C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\lib\install\action\finalize.js:31:7)
npm ERR! at C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\graceful-fs\polyfills.js:287:18
npm ERR! at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15)
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename 'E:\xampp\htdocs\cgf\rcredits-mobile\node_modules\node-sass' -> 'E:\xampp\htdocs\cgf\rcredits-mobile\node_modules\.node-sass.DELETE'
npm ERR! at Error (native) parent: 'rcreditsmobile' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2017-02-11T01_17_29_643Z-debug.log

Answer 1

I found an answer on the ionic forum that works, the relevant part is below with a few modifications for clarity:
Just add this to your gulpfile.js
gulp.task('serve:before', ['default']);
That line tells the new ionic 2 client to run the old ionic 1.x client
'default' task before serving (before running ionic serve)
Also you need to add your ionic.config.json file this:
{
...
"app_id": "",
"v2": false,
"typescript": false,
"watch": {
"sass": ["scss/**/*.scss"],
"html": ["www/**/*.html"],
"livereload": [
"www/**/*.html",
"www/**/*.js",
"www/**/*.css"
]
}
...
}
Ref: https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic2-cli-doesnt-run-gulp-tasks-on-ionic-serve/49085/7

Answer 2

I've encountered this problem before. What I've tried so far:
Reinstall the node.js. You may refer https://nodejs.org/en/download/
Run in command line: npm rebuild node-sass
Then try run ionic serve. Hope it helps you.