Hyde LessCSS plugin doesn't convert less files to css

Question

I've been trying to get a hyde site going using the latest version available (0.8.4). I used the built in command to create a site hyde -s /path/to/dir create, and all worked fine. I then followed some examples I found to try and get LessCSS support by editing the site.yaml file:

plugins:
    - hyde.ext.plugins.meta.MetaPlugin
    - hyde.ext.plugins.auto_extend.AutoExtendPlugin
    - hyde.ext.plugins.sorter.SorterPlugin
    - hyde.ext.plugins.tagger.TaggerPlugin
    - hyde.ext.plugins.syntext.SyntextPlugin
    - hyde.ext.plugins.textlinks.TextlinksPlugin
    - hyde.ext.plugins.less.LessCSSPlugin

# ...

less:
    app: /path/to/lessc

I added a very basic less file to check that it works:

/* content/media/css/style.less */
@color: blue;
body { background-color: @color; }

And included it in my application:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ media_url('css/style.css') }}">

When I generate the site, I see the the proper css in the command line output body{background-color:blue};, but the file deploy/media/css/style.css is just a copy of the less file. Documentation on this is not great - has anyone got it to work? thanks.

Answer 1

Hyde has an extensive test suite and the less css tests do pass. So the less plugin does work. The only issue I can think of is the less binary. Hyde's less plugin is written to be used with the JS version of less: https://github.com/cloudhead/less.js/.