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I wanted to know if Web Essentials just includes some library to compile LESS, like dotLess, in the bundle, or if it is itself a compiler for LESS, along with other utilities?

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It just includes the LESS compiler. (More specifically WE2012 uses less.js script run in WSH)

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  • Thank you. Just as a confirmation, less.js compiles less files on the server right? And then serves the corresponding css files? – fduayer Nov 26 '13 at 20:30
  • Not exactly. Less.js is just a script (one of [these](https://github.com/less/less.js/tree/master/dist)), it runs just wherever you run it (a server, a browser or a local machine). The script only compiles less files to css files but what happens to the compiled css files next is out of its authority. (Except the in-browser usage when compiled css is just unlined into corresponding html). – seven-phases-max Nov 26 '13 at 21:02
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Mads Kristensen says:

We're slowly moving over to use NodeJS for compiling LESS and CoffeeScript, but only in WE 2013. Right now, only LESS uses NodeJS for compiling, but we're moving CoffeeScript to nodejs soon as well

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