How to use Twitter Bootstrap in productions, LESS or compressed CSS?

Question

I'm working in J2EE project which want to use Twitter Bootstrap as main style for front-end, with some customizations for fitting product.

I don't know should I use LESS or CSS format introduced by Twitter Bootstrap, if use LESS I have to compile these files to CSS at server or client side, which Java framework help me at server side because I need to cache the stylesheet in product mode, otherwise don't need to cache them.

I'm wondering that precompile at client site will impacts to product performance, anyone made a benchmark for that?

Answer 1

You could try wro4j for that, which can be used as a runtime or build-time solution for server-side transformation of less into css and also handles the caching. You can read more about less support for wro4j here:

• Wro4j, Page Load Optimization and Less.js
• Less css support