Fails to write output to file if containing directory does not yet exist

[edeych]

If I try to output to a file in a target directory but that directory does not yet exist, the system throws an error. This does not happen if I use grunt-contrib-cssmin - it creates the missing directory structure for me, but I no longer want to use grunt. Here is the stack trace on a Windows 10 OS:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Human\Documents\GitHub\crucial\public\dist\1.0.0\css\main.min.css' at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:646:18) at Object.fs.writeFileSync (fs.js:1299:33) at output (C:\Users\Human\Documents\GitHub\crucial\node_modules\clean-css-cli\index.js:323:8) at C:\Users\Human\Documents\GitHub\crucial\node_modules\clean-css-cli\index.js:266:7 at C:\Users\Human\Documents\GitHub\crucial\node_modules\clean-css\lib\clean.js:125:9 at C:\Users\Human\Documents\GitHub\crucial\node_modules\clean-css\lib\reader\read-sources.js:26:64 at loadOriginalSources (C:\Users\Human\Documents\GitHub\crucial\node_modules\clean-css\lib\reader\load-original-sources.js:26:5) at C:\Users\Human\Documents\GitHub\crucial\node_modules\clean-css\lib\reader\read-sources.js:26:14 at applySourceMaps (C:\Users\Human\Documents\GitHub\crucial\node_modules\clean-css\lib\reader\apply-source-maps.js:34:5) at Object.callback (C:\Users\Human\Documents\GitHub\crucial\node_modules\clean-css\lib\reader\read-sources.js:25:12) npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! [email protected] cleancss: cleancss -o public/dist/%npm_package_version%/css/main.min.css public/css/*.css npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] cleancss script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

[jakubpawlowicz]

It's fixed in main branch and due in v5.0.0 soon.