Learning Less.js

Summary

We're now ready to start exploring the Less syntax in more detail. Before we do so, let's recap what we learned throughout this chapter.

We began with how you can download and install Less; we first covered how you can download this as a standalone library, before incorporating it into our pages. We also took a brief look at how you can use a CDN link instead of downloading the code; while this isn't recommended for development purposes, it nevertheless is worthwhile for production sites, where the browser can cache the library if a visitor has already accessed the library on a previous site.

Moving on, we then took a look at how you install Less server-side, using the Node platform. We saw how easy it is to compile Less files, using a single ...