https://github.com/toogle/express-less

On-the-fly LESS-to-CSS conversion middleware
https://github.com/toogle/express-less

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On-the-fly LESS-to-CSS conversion middleware

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/toogle/express-less
• Owner: toogle
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2013-08-04T22:11:39.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-07-31T14:21:26.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-15T00:47:35.129Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: css, express, expressjs, less, lesscss, middleware
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-less
• Size: 30.3 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# Express LESS

On-the-fly LESS-to-CSS conversion middleware.

For more information on LESS visit [lesscss.org](http://lesscss.org/).

## Installation

    $ npm install express-less

## Usage

```js

var express = require('express'),

    expressLess = require('express-less');

var app = express();

app.use('/less-css', expressLess(__dirname + '/less'));

```

Now request to */less-css/styles.css* will return rendered contents of *./less/styles.less*.

**Note the change of file extension from `.less` to `.css`.**

Additionally, you can ask LESS to compress the result:

```js

app.use('/less-css', expressLess(__dirname + '/less', { compress: true }));

```

You can enable the cache system to improve performance:

```js

app.use('/less-css', expressLess(__dirname + '/less', { cache: true }));

```

For detail information on LESS errors use the `debug` option, e.g.

```js

// Enable error reporting permanently

app.use('/less-css', expressLess(__dirname + '/less', { debug: true }));

// or only for development environment

app.use('/less-css', expressLess(__dirname + '/less', {

    debug: app.get('env') == 'development'

}));

```

## Tests

    $ npm test

# License

Copyright (C) 2016 Andrew A. Usenok <[email protected]>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program. If not, see .