Node.js Compilers
Following are the Node.js compilers used for LESS.
Grunt is a Node task runner. It will compile your stylesheets every time you commit changes to your LESS files.
assemble-less is a powerful grunt plugin for compiling LESS file to
CSS. The less task pulls JSON and Lo - dash(underscore) template for
defining the LESS bundles, UI components, compressed stylesheets or
themes.
It is LESS plugin for Gulp.
gulp-minify-css is used to minify you CSS.
gulp-sourcemaps is used to generate the sourcemaps library.
It is a open source tool which is built on LESS which help in
optimizing your CSS code. It keeps the CSS code error free, clean and
manageable.
It is a
.less file watcher. It contains dependency tracking and Cross-platform notification.
It is used to allow the processing for connect JS framework of LESS
files. It compiles source file on request and cache the compiled data
for next request.
Other Technologies
Below are the other technologies where you can compiler the LESS code.
Wro4j Runner CLI
You can download the
wro4j-runner.jar and can compile your LESS code in CSS by using the following command:
java -jar wro4j-runner-1.5.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar --preProcessors lessCss
You can visit the following link to know more about
Wro4j Runner CLI
CSS::LESSp
This module is used to parse and compile the LESS file into CSS file. Following is the command used to compile:
lessp.pl styles.less > styles.css
You can visit the following link to know more about
CSS::LESSp
Windows Script Host
Following is the command line compiler that will run on windows.
cscript //nologo lessc.wsf input.less [output.css] [-compress]
OR
lessc input.less [output.css] [-compress]
You can visit the following link to know more about
Less.js for windows
dotless
The following command line compiler to run dotless for windows.
dotless.Compiler.exe [-switches] [outputfile]
You can visit the following link to know more about
dotless
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