As a side project to explore the Clojure programming language, I wrote a small plugin for compiling LessCSS resources in a Leiningen project.

Leiningen is a very nice tool that helps you manage Clojure projects: you specify a project description file, and let Leiningen handle the classpaths, the download of needed dependencies and so on. A bit like what Maven does in the Java world.

Leiningen is also extensible, allowing developers to use plugins for performing different tasks.

What I wrote is a plugin that compiles the LessCSS files present in a project so that they can be used by the application.

This is very useful if you want to integrate LessCSS in a web application developed with one of the many web frameworks available for Clojure like, for example, Compojure

Installation and usage

You just need to declare the [lein-lesscss "1.0-SNAPSHOT"] in the :plugins section of your project.clj. The plugin is available on Clojars so it will automatically downloaded.

By running lein on your project root, you will see that a lesscss task is now available.

You can then run lein lesscss to compile all the LessCSS .less files that are found in the less directory of your project tree.

The resulting CSS files will be then made available to the application which can reference them.

Source code

Source code is available on GitHub. All contributions and feedbacks are welcome.