Compile LESS files to CSS.
Grunt file to compile LESS files to CSS.
Questions tagged [grunt-contrib-less]
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Using Grunt to watch all files in my src directory and output to build
I'm completely new to Grunt and I want to use it in my next project.
What I want to do is, for example, to have the file at src/server.coffee to be compiled to build/server.js and the file at src/public/assets/css/global.less to be compiled to…
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Grunt task with grunt-contrib-less - how to compile multiple stylesheets while maintaining their original .less file name
I'm building a website with Bootstrap using less. I use grunt to automate the tasks.
In my gruntfile.js I have this part:
less: {
compileCore: {
options: {
strictMath: true,
sourceMap: true,
outputSourceFiles: true,
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Meek
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Grunt relative file path globbing
Is it possible to use Globbing partially on a directory in a file path?
I have a grunt-contrib-less task set up, the file path for my task looks something like this:
files: {
"../../application/user/themes/some-theme-5.1.1.5830/css/main.css":…
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Loading "less.js" tasks...ERROR when building pipeline on buddy.work, but on local is fine, why?
I'm trying to build a pipeline to deploy my website. I use grunt to compile less and minify CSS. This is how the gruntfile.js looks like:
module.exports = function(grunt) {
grunt.initConfig({
pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
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Grunt - Unable to compile less to css using grunt-contrib-less
I've a good feeling i am doing something extremely silly here but i am not sure what.
I am using grunt-contrib-less to compile less into css but it just doesn't seem to work at all. It shows no error or does anything and i am not sure why.
please…
Kaushik Thirthappa
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grunt-contrib-less: compilation on watch task removes sourcemap link
Here's my less task config:
less: {
development: {
options: {
compress: false,
sourceMap: true,
yuicompress: true,
sourceMapFilename: 'export/style/app.css.map',
sourceMapURL:…
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Grunt-contrib-less fails with Angular-Material @media queries
I'm experiencing a strange error with angular-material & grunt-contrib-less.
Every time i'm trying to run a simply grunt less task it fails with the following error message
>> ParseError: media definitions require block statements after any features…
Vassilis Pits
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Grunt less won't replace css file
I use grunt-contrib-less with grunt-contrib-watch to compile my less files automatically upon change.
When the css is not present, grunt compiles it ok. When a css already exists and watch sees the less file changed, the css file is not modified. I…
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How do I change less compilation so that it doesn't add an @import statement?
I have a main.less file. I am running the grunt package: grunt-contrib-less on it to produce css. The generated css file has the following newly inserted at the top (with all other references correctly converted into css):
@import…
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Grunt so slow with watch multiple less tasks
I have a simple less files with very little contents but the compile time varies from 10 - 27s. Any ideas as to why? Is it my machine or the grunt settings that I am missing? Do I need to clear some sort of cache?
Gruntfile.js…
Suthan Bala
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Grunt won't process lesscss file
I am trying to concatenate a set of .less files into a big .less file, and then have it processed into a big .css file using Grunt's grunt-contrib-less module.
module.exports = function(grunt) {
require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt);
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Grunt LESS force compile on error
I was wondering if it's possible to force grunt to compile LESS even if there is an error?
The reason I ask is I'm outputting settings from the interface (Moodle) into less so that they can be changed by users. When I try to see a colour or do some…
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"undefined is not a function" grunt less
Good afternoon , trying to deal with the assembly , but get the error:
"undefined is not a function"
My folder structure:
-/less
style.less
--/components
header.less
-/css
-/img
-/js
I installed : grunt-contrib-less
and that my…
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How to set resolve path for image-width?
I have a LESS file that refers to an absolute location (it needs to be absolute or grunt-usemin won't parse it properly), but this causes the less compiler to not be able to resolve the image when processing image-width().
/client/app/app.less
//…
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Grunt: How to generically run less task on multiple files that the watch task detects?
How can I set up my grunt script to run a less task on multiple files that the watch task detects? Is it possible to do this without using a "grunt.event.on('watch'..." hack?
This solution works with one file, but when two files are saved at the…
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