Meteor: bootbox seems to have erased all of my bootstrap files

Question

I have the following error:

input:26:1: Less compiler error: '/packages/bootstrap3-less/lib/less/variables.lessimport' wasn't found

This is confusing for two reasons.

• I don't know where this input file is. I include variables.less in index.less like this:

@import "/packages/bootstrap3-less/lib/less/variables.lessimport";

which is technically on line 27, not 26. Maybe I'm being crazy.

• I've checked that directory, that file is there, but it's empty.

They're all empty. All of the files under the bootstrap3-less directory are just cleaned out. (Well, most of them. Some of the json files and build files still have things in them, but all the good stuff is gone.)

I was using this bootstrap less packaging which looks like it has changed since I originally installed it.

This happened after installing the bootboxjs meteor package which I was very excited about. I installed it as it recommended:

mrt add bootboxjs

I have removed bootbox, but the damage to my bootstrap package is done.

What happened? How can I intelligently undo the damage? Should I just reinstall the bootstrap3-less package?

Also, how can I keep this from happening again?? I still want to install bootboxjs, since my modals aren't playing nice with changing handlebars (Meteor: Bootstrap Modal breaks when handlebars values change) How should I intelligently install it? Should I maintain it as a local package?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I ran into a similar problem a week ago. When you add a package using mrt it automatically updates all of your other packages (good feature?). So when you added bootboxjs, it updated your bootstrap3-less package to use their new naming scheme, which is *.import.less rather than *.lessimport.

In order to fix this you have to update your references to any bootstrap related less files to *.import.less.

I would recommend just going back through your bootstrap configuration and making sure everything is as it should be according to their new docs.