# No dist folder output on updated Sage 9 theme

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/no-dist-folder-output-on-updated-sage-9-theme/22287
**Category:** sage
**Tags:** sage9
**Created:** 2022-02-09T18:41:56Z
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## Post 2 by @strarsis — 2022-02-09T19:30:16Z

Have you upgraded your old Sage 9.x theme to webpack 5 using the latest commit in Sage 9 branch of [Sage repository](https://github.com/roots/sage)?

Have you applied this Theme update approach (previously used for the Sage 9.x update branch ([Sage "9.1": Please test](https://discourse.roots.io/t/sage-9-1-please-test/20067)))?

# Updating an existing Sage 9 theme (quick guide)

1. Create a new Sage 9 project with the command above,  
select the framework that is also used by your own Sage 9 project.
2. (It is assumed that your own Sage project is already under version control (as `git`).  
Copy all the files of the newly created, empty Sage 9 project over the ones of your own Sage 9 project,  
overwrite everything. You can skip the `vendor/` folder to speed things up slightly.
3. Use diff/merge tools to resolve any differences, apply your own configuration and adjust it if necessary. Updating to `webpack` `4` and `5` requires surprisingly little configuration changes.
4. Invoke `composer update` or, if there is trouble, remove the `composer.lock` file (it shouldn’t cause issues most of the time) and invoke `composer install`.
5. Invoke `npm install`, or, if there is trouble, remove the `package-lock.json` and/or `yarn.lock` (it shouldn’t cause issues as the base dependencies are already maxed out) and invoke `npm install`.  
Also note that recent `npm` is much faster than in the earlier days, so you may want to switch back to `npm`, but this is up to you.
6. Invoke `npm run build`, the theme should build fine, fix your re-applied configuration if otherwise.
7. Test your theme, styles and images should load as before.

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