738406 - [bedrock] In DEBUG mode, LESS should work without further ado

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(www.mozilla.org :: Bedrock, defect)

Description

[James Long (:jlongster)]

Our dev environment currently requires node and less because jingo-minify compiles it server-side. We should use the client-side library so that you don't have to install node. It also seems to be more reliable.

See this issue for full discussion: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/issues/19

Comment 1

[Brandon Burton [:solarce]]

:jlonsger , Does this relate to bug 733386?

Comment 2

[James Long (:jlongster)]

(In reply to Brandon Burton [:solarce] from comment #1)
> :jlonsger , Does this relate to bug 733386?

Not exactly, that bug is required for the production sites to compress our CSS code. The current version of less.js has a bug that doesn't handle some our special CSS syntax.

This is just to remove the requirement for node and less.js for local development. We can simply use the client-side js library.

Comment 3

[Jonas Strømsodd]

I would like to work on this. Can someone assign to me or may I do that myself?

Comment 4

[Jonas Strømsodd]

(In reply to Jonas Strømsodd from comment #3)
> I would like to work on this. Can someone assign to me or may I do that
> myself?

Never mind that. I guess Stylus is what is being used ATM?

Comment 5

[Alex Gibson [:agibson]]

This is an old bug and the issue is no longer really applicable to bedrock's current setup. We're still using Less, but planning on moving over to Sass in the near future. Node is also more of a dev requirement these days for various other things. Closing this as wontfix.