less-watcher2

0.2.0 • Public • Published

less-watcher

Automatically detecting changes in .less files and recompiling styles.

NPM

About less.js dependency

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

Install

Global

# npm install -g less-watcher2

Local

$ npm install less-watcher2
$ ln -s ./node_modules/.bin/less-watcher

Usage

Show usage info

Global install: $ less-watcher --help

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

Use config file

Copy 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

$ 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 for automatically generated documentation by JSDoc utility.

Generation

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

License

GPLv3

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Version

0.2.0

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1.13 MB

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