https://github.com/unclechu/node-less-watcher

Automatically detecting changes in .less files and recompile styles.
https://github.com/unclechu/node-less-watcher

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Automatically detecting changes in .less files and recompile styles.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/unclechu/node-less-watcher
• Owner: unclechu
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2014-03-23T10:17:23.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-07-16T16:03:14.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-12T00:31:22.493Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: css, javascript, less, recompile-styles, watches
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 410 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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less-watcher

============

Automatically detecting changes in [.less](http://lesscss.org/) files and recompiling styles.

[![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm/less-watcher2.png)](https://nodei.co/npm/less-watcher2/)

About less.js dependency

------------------------

Supported versions are: `1.2.0` and higher (`3.7.1` was last tested).

Install

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Global

------

    # npm install -g less-watcher2

Local

-----

    $ npm install less-watcher2

    $ ln -s ./node_modules/.bin/less-watcher

Usage

=====

Show usage info

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Global install: `$ less-watcher --help`

Local install: `$ ./less-watcher --help`

Use config file

---------------

Copy [examples/less-watcher.config.json](examples/less-watcher.config.json)

to your working directory and modify it.

Compile and exit (without watching)

-----------------------------------

Global install: `$ less-watcher --just-compile`

Local install: `$ ./less-watcher --just-compile`

Output

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    $ less-watcher

    Configurations JSON file path is not set by argument and file by default value ("less-watcher.config.json") is not exists.

    Will be used default configs:

      {

        "path": "./styles/",

        "to_compile": [

          {

            "input_less": "main.less",

            "output_css": "compiled_styles.css"

          }

        ],

        "compress": true,

        "debug": true,

        "events": [

          "created",

          "changed",

          "removed"

        ],

        "extensions": [

          ".less"

        ]

      }

    Compiling less "main.less" to css "compiled_styles.css" (counter: 1) [20:13:01]

    Started watcher for less files (".less") in directory ".../styles/" [20:13:01]

    Compiled less "main.less" to css "compiled_styles.css" (counter: 1) [20:13:02]

    Catched! ".../styles/goods.less" [20:13:11]

    Compiling less "main.less" to css "compiled_styles.css" (counter: 2) [20:13:11]

    Compiled less "main.less" to css "compiled_styles.css" (counter: 2) [20:13:12]

Documentation

=============

See [docs](docs/) for automatically generated documentation by [JSDoc](http://usejsdoc.org/) utility.

Generation

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    $ jsdoc bin/* lib/* -p -d docs

License

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[GPLv3](LICENSE)