gulp-less-legacy

A LESS plugin for Gulp

Installation

npm install gulp-less-legacy

Basic Usage

var less = require('gulp-less-legacy');
var path = require('path');
 
gulp.task('less', function () {
  return gulp.src('./less/**/*.less')
    .pipe(less({
      paths: [ path.join(__dirname, 'less', 'includes') ]
    }))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./public/css'));
});

Options

The options you can use can be found here. Below is a list of valid options as of the time of writing:

• paths: Array of paths to be used for @import directives
• plugins: Array of less plugins (details)

The filename option is not necessary, it's handled automatically by this plugin. The compress option is not supported -- if you are trying to minify your css, use gulp-minify-css. No sourceMap options are supported -- if you are trying to generate sourcemaps, use gulp-sourcemaps.

Minifying CSS

If you want to minify/compress your css, you can use either the gulp-minify-css plugin for gulp, or the less-clean-css plugin for less. Examples of both are shown below:

// Using a less plugin to minify css
var LessPluginCleanCSS = require('less-plugin-clean-css'),
    cleancss = new LessPluginCleanCSS({ advanced: true });
 
gulp.src('./less/**/*.less')
  .pipe(less({
    plugins: [cleancss]
  }))
  .pipe(gulp.dest('./public/css'));

// Using a gulp plugin to minify css
var minifyCSS = require('gulp-minify-css');
 
gulp.src('./less/**/*.less')
  .pipe(less())
  .pipe(minifyCSS())
  .pipe(gulp.dest('./public/css'));

Using Plugins

Less now supports plugins, which can add additional functionality like minifying css as shown above. Here's an example of how to use plugins with gulp-less using both the clean-css plugin and the autoprefix plugin.

var LessPluginCleanCSS = require('less-plugin-clean-css'),
    LessPluginAutoPrefix = require('less-plugin-autoprefix'),
    cleancss = new LessPluginCleanCSS({ advanced: true }),
    autoprefix= new LessPluginAutoPrefix({ browsers: ["last 2 versions"] });
 
gulp.src('./less/**/*.less')
  .pipe(less({
    plugins: [autoprefix, cleancss]
  }))
  .pipe(gulp.dest('./public/css'));

More info on LESS plugins can be found at http://lesscss.org/usage/#plugins, including a current list of all available plugins.

Error Handling

By default, a gulp task will fail and all streams will halt when an error happens. To change this behavior check out the error handling documentation here

License

(MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2015 Plus 3 Network [e-mail], Tim Branyen

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