Alternative to grunt-contrib-less?

Question

I'm trying to compile a set of .less files, and generate individual source maps in the process. I have about 20 source files currently, and so I'm using dynamic expansion to load them all in.

I would then like the file compiled to css (works), and an individual source map generated for each (doesn't work)

file_x.less -+--> file_x.css          (YAY)
             |
             |--> file_x.css.map      (NAY)

It seems that getting source mapping to work is tricky to start with, but appears not to work at all for multiple , individual files .

So, does anyone know of an easy, snap-in alternative? If not, my next solution is to try shell out and call lessc natively, but I'd rather not if I can avoid that.

Edit : This will be used for both development and production

Answer 1

I don't know of any packages that currently do this. With grunt-contrib-less, though the way I ended up solving this issue for myself was by inlining the sourcemaps in the CSS by setting outputSourceFiles: true

In my experience this is actually the most convenient way to handle your maps anyway. The only downside is that it will require that you have a minifier set up, since inlining the maps will likely more than double the size of your CSS files.