Question

I’m currently using the Initializr generated Bootstrap enhanced version of the HTML5 Boilerplate which also includes the LESS framework.

Now the style.less is being included by the following line:

<link rel="stylesheet/less" href="${resource(dir: 'less', file: 'style.less') }">

This works, but the line @import('bootstrap/bootstrap.less') fails, because it cannot find the bootstrap.less file in /static/less/bootstrap/bootstrap.less. However, the file is available without the static part.

Is there something I need to tell Grails to put the not directly in a GSP page referenced files (what kind they may be of) in the right directory, i.e. static?

I found an issue regarding this problem: http://jira.grails.org/browse/GPRESOURCES-135 – this is telling me, that it has been fixed in version 1.2, I am currently using 2.0.2.

What do I have to do, to make this work?

Answer 1

I installed the lesscss-resources plugin which precompiles LESS files. This way, I can also use the @import statements.

I have defined my core stylesheets as a module in ApplicationConfig.groovy.

modules = {

    // ...

    sitecore {      
        dependsOn 'jquery'

        resource url:'less/style.less', attrs:[rel: "stylesheet/less", type:'css'], bundle:'bundle_sitecore'
        resource url:'js/main.js'
    }

And by doing so, I can just reference it using the Resources plugin of Grails:

<r:require module="sitecore" />