bundled dependency node-sass@3.2.2 has no node@6 binary

[robrich]

Ionic@1.7.14 has a bundleDependency of ionic-app-lib 0.7.0. ionic-app-lib 0.7.0 depends on node-sass ^3.2.2. node-sass 3.2.2 has no node 6.x binary.

When a user runs npm install ionic -g, the ionic tarball downloaded contains ionic-app-lib@0.7.0 and node-sass@3.2.2, so the latest semver appropriate node-sass is not installed. Then the node-sass install script runs, downloading the binary from https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases. node-sass@3.2.2 doesn't have a node@6 binary, so it falls back to building one. For windows users, this means they must install Python and Visual Studio.

ionic-team/ionic-app-lib#101 gets the latest node-sass into ionic-app-lib. Once published, a new ionic-cli will need to be published to get the new bundled dependency included in ionic.

As a temporary work-around, windows users can downgrade node to 5.x or earlier.

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