I’m currently trying to move away from the obsolete sassc and sassc-rails gems and migrate to a recommended alternative – dartsass-rails. While doing this, I had to update my sprockets gem which now requires a manifest.js config file. According to what I read, the manifest.js file should contain directives of assets to be rendered. I added the following to my manifest.js;

//= link_tree ../images
//= link_tree ../javascript .js

As seen from above, I wish to make sprockets compile only image and javascript assets. On running bundle exec rails assets:precompile, I get the following error;

LoadError: cannot load such file -- sassc (LoadError)

From what I’ve know so far, sprockets would only try to compile scss/sass files only when it’s among the linked files in the manifest.js file. I didn’t add the stylesheets directory so I’m not sure why this error occurs. I have also tried deleting the .scss files I have in my stylesheets directory but the error still persists.

How can I get rid of the error as well as disable sprockets from compiling assets in stylesheets directory please? Thank you.