rickkuipers/justless

ZF2 module that allows automation of compiling your LESS with the extra of minifying the files.

1.0.2 2014-02-01 13:29 UTC

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Last update: 2024-09-04 18:16:47 UTC


README

ZF2 module that allows automation of compiling your LESS with the extra of minifying the files. A view helper is available which expects a .less file as a parameter and will compile and possibly minify it returning the filename of the compiled file.

Why JustLess?

First of all I like automating my workflow, if I can skip the step of compiling and minifying through automation then I will! Second of all, the existing modules that I found were entire Asset Managers, but all I wanted was LESS compilation and minification. That's why I made JustLess.

Features

  • Compile LESS to CSS on the fly
  • Automatically minify the result
  • Compilated files are cached using file modified time.

Installation

  1. Add the module to your composer.json (or use composer cli)

    "require": {
        "rickkuipers/justless": "~1.0.0"
    }
  2. Run composer update: php composer.phar update

  3. Enable the module in application.config.php

    return array(
      'modules' => array(
        /*...*/
        'JustLess',
        /*...*/
      ),
    );
  4. Copy the file from /vendor/rickkuipers/justless/config/justless.global.php.dist to /config/autoload/justless.global.php

  5. Edit the config to match your preferred configuration

  6. Make sure the destination_dir is writable (chmod -R 0777 css/).

Usage

$this->less($file, $minify) first parameter is the .less file, second parameter is optional if you want to override the default configuration of minifying the css.

<link href="<?php echo $this->basePath($this->less('less/style.less')) ?>" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">