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Learning less.js

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Learning less.js

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Learning Less.js
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Contributing to the Less source


Once you've become more accustomed to working with Less, you might feel a desire to contribute something back to the project. After all, the project owners spent countless hours developing the library, so any help is always welcome.

There are two ways you can help with contributing to the project: submitting feature requests and creating pull requests. Before we look at them, there is a small bit of work that is worth completing first, that is, install Node.js and Grunt.

Getting prepared

If you spend any time in developing code submissions for Less, then it is essential to install two tools; these are key to the whole development process for Less:

  • Node.js: This can be downloaded from http://www.nodejs.org for your platform. At the time of writing this, the latest Version is 0.10.28.

  • Grunt: This is available from http://www.gruntjs.com; at the time of writing this, it is at Version 0.4.5.

Next, we need to install Grunt. In a command prompt, enter the following...