SCSS not working within a REACT app specifically

Question

I'm pretty sure its my folders filepath for my compile Sass script, but I've been at this one a few hours now, so I'm hoping you can help... (maybe there's a setup setting IDK about?...

Two similar projects - 1 Vanilla, 1 React.
1. On both I have node, NPM and node-sass installed; via: npm i --save-dev node-sass
2. I've got livesass compiler going. On vanilla it works as expected. On the React project live-sass-compiler keeps on crashing (it is working long enough for me to test it though) and when i run in the terminal: npm run compile:sass the terminal turns into a node, never compiles, and also seems to get stuck in this state.

Please help!

NOW FOR THE DIFFERENCES:
==========Filepaths==========
(Filepath is indicated by "./", multiple files indicated by array syntax.

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Vanilla (root):

index.html (stylesheet href="./STYLES/SCSS/index.css")
index.js
./STYLES/ [index.css, index.css.map, index.scss]
package.json (script: "compile:sass": "node-sass STYLES/SCSS/index.scss STYLES/output.css -w")

Works great!

---

REACT (root):

./public/index.html (stylesheet href="../src/STYLES/CSS/index.css")
./src/index.js
.src/STYLES/ [index.scss, (desired css output)]
package.json (script: "compile:sass": "node-sass src/STYLES/index.scss src/STYLES/CSS/index.css -w")

---

in both of them, inside the node-modules folder, I have installed:
"devDependencies": {"node-sass": "^7.0.1"}

Answer 1

Hey, I figured it out!
- I got rid of live-sass-compiler (it's depreciated).
- I also removed the "script: "compile:sass": "node-s..."" as it's no longer required. Compilation will happen natively every time you save the file.

TO USE WITH REACT:

Terminal:

npm install -D sass
sass —watch scss:css

1. add an .env file to the root. Inside type: “SASS_PATH=src/STYLES/SCSS”

(this allowed relative paths to be ignored on previous versions. I haven't gotten this to work but everything else seems to work. It may be depreciated... IDK.)

2. include the filepath import to the JS page you’d like the CSS to live under:

(example (for APP-WIDE Changes): index.js: import './STYLES/index.scss’ //imports to the app component

3. to import another file from index.scss: Within the index.scss file: @use './SCSS/_unorganized.scss'; // ("@import" will soon be depreciated, instead use @use)

Hope this saves someone else some time!