What is causing this "invalid top-level expression" error in my GULP gulpfile.js file?
If you want to use the indented syntax (.sass) as the top level file, use
pipe(sass({ indentedSyntax: true }))
instead of
pipe(sass()).
Can you try to use the option sourceComments and set it to normal in your sass ? It seems to have some problems if you don't pass it.
So try to change your task as follow :
gulp.task('sass', function () { gulp.src('app/assets/sass/styles.sass') .pipe(sass({ errLogToConsole: true, sourceComments : 'normal' })) .pipe(gulp.dest('public_html/assets/css'))});See the related issue of gulp-sass. Alternatively, you can still use gulp-ruby-sass.
Hilariously, the problem for me was that the plugin gulp-sass ignores the extension of the top level file and parses as SCSS no matter what.
Includes worked correctly, so the solution was to make a one liner inclusion at the top.