Add a task for Less.js

[gruntjs]

Add a task for Less.js

[cowboy]

Can you take a stab at building a task (or tasks) for these?

[tbranyen]

There is a task already created for less here: https://github.com/tbranyen/build-tasks/tree/master/less

[tauren]

Thanks @tbranyen. Nice to see a project already doing this. Unfortunately, it does both the less and compressing in one task. They should be broken into separate tasks.

I'd certainly be happy to work on this when I get a chance.

[tbranyen]

Absolutely agree with that. It should be decoupled.

[rowanmanning]

For quite specific libraries, like LESS, does it make more sense to have a simple plugin system or maintain a repository of user-contributed extensions? I may be wrong, but this doesn't feel like it should be in the core build tool.

I use LESS for a lot of projects, but I also have projects where it'd be an unneeded extra :)

[svnlto]

there is a task for less.js that's pretty decent.

https://github.com/mklabs/gruntfiles/blob/master/tasks/less.js

[errcw]

I have a task that I wrote for stylus:
https://github.com/errcw/gruntfiles/blob/master/tasks/stylus.js

But I agree with @rowanmanning that the right approach is likely not to include ten kitchen sinks of tasks in grunt itself but rather to provide some mechanism of easily pulling in user-contributed tasks (and for that, perhaps ~/.grunt is sufficient?).

[tkellen]

@tauren minification isn't enforced in that task, but it is an option.

[jharding]

In case anyone comes here looking for an npm task for LESS (like I initially did), I've created grunt-less.

[cowboy]

If anything, this belongs in the upcoming grunt-contrib plugin.

[tkellen]

already in there! i just haven't pushed it to npm yet.