diff --git a/dependencyManager.js b/dependencyManager.js
index dbdb484c..98ad552b 100644
--- a/dependencyManager.js
+++ b/dependencyManager.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-const { isAngular, isTypeScript } = require("./projectHelpers");
+const { isAngular, isTypeScript, isSass } = require("./projectHelpers");
 
 const NEW_DEPS_MESSAGE = `\
 A few new dependencies were added. \
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ function getRequiredDeps(packageJson) {
         Object.assign(deps, { "awesome-typescript-loader": "~3.1.3" });
     }
 
+    if (isSass({packageJson})) {
+        Object.assign(deps, { "sass-loader": "~6.0.6" });
+    }
+
     return deps;
 }
 
diff --git a/projectHelpers.js b/projectHelpers.js
index 629fcf8c..fb1b69bf 100644
--- a/projectHelpers.js
+++ b/projectHelpers.js
@@ -21,6 +21,18 @@ const isAngular = ({ projectDir, packageJson } = {}) => {
         .some(dependency => /^@angular\b/.test(dependency));
 };
 
+const isSass = ({ projectDir, packageJson } = {}) => {
+    packageJson = packageJson || getPackageJson(projectDir);
+
+    return (
+        packageJson.dependencies &&
+        packageJson.dependencies.hasOwnProperty("nativescript-dev-sass")
+    ) || (
+            packageJson.devDependencies &&
+            packageJson.devDependencies.hasOwnProperty("nativescript-dev-sass")
+        );
+};
+
 const getAndroidRuntimeVersion = (projectDir) => {
     try {
         const projectPackageJSON = getPackageJson(projectDir);
@@ -105,6 +117,7 @@ const getPackageJsonPath = projectDir => path.resolve(projectDir, "package.json"
 module.exports = {
     isTypeScript,
     isAngular,
+    isSass,
     writePackageJson,
     getPackageJson,
     getProjectDir,