In this recipe, we'll make use of the contrib-less (0.11.4)
plugin to generate source maps when compiling our LESS style sheets to CSS.
In this example, we'll work with the basic project structure that we created in the Compiling LESS to CSS recipe of this chapter. Be sure to refer to it if you are not yet familiar with its contents.
The following steps will take us through compiling our LESS style sheet to a CSS file, which contains both our source map and the source style sheet:
First, we'll indicate that we'd like to generate a source map by setting the
sourceMap
option totrue
in ourless
task's configuration:less: { styles: { options: { sourceMap: true }, src: 'styles.less', dest: 'styles.css' } }
Next, we'll indicate that we'd like to include the source of the generated CSS in the resulting file by setting the
outputSourceFiles
option totrue
in task's configuration:less: { styles: { options: {...