What are the best ways to use LESS for CSS.
- Basically should the Devs write a Less File and then have it compile for production
- Should I link the LESS code and the javascript file.
- Or should I skip the LESS rout altogether and just remake the classes
I am trying to wrangle together some rather sloppy css and want to get control of it before making major improvements. I think it would be very good to have site wide variable so Less seems like a good thing with the variables and nesting.
I am replacing a lot of the background images with css gradients and box shadows so I am also trying to get rid of the vendor prefixes.
Sometimes I see what kindof looks like class overload but is it bad to append a lot of classes to an element such as
<div class="comment dark-shadow round-corners"></div>
Less is a great styling language. I use it extensively, and it really helps with code maintainability, as well as with speed of writing the styles.
I personally feel that your styles should not be dependent on javascript to render, so I use the less.app to compile all my LESS into CSS. I rest more peacefully knowing that all my CSS is there and that it works correctly before I put anything “live”.
If you are interested I have also been compiling a LESS mixin library that can be very useful: https://github.com/jdmiller82/-lessins-