Intellij IDEA 11: how can I compile .css from .less?

Question

how can I compile .css from .less in intellij ? sure this should be dead easy, but its got me stumped. anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

I wrote a LESS Compiler plugin that automatically compiles LESS files to CSS whenever they change.

You can configure multiple LESS directories to watch per project, and the output of each will be copied to one or more output CSS directories that you specify:

You can include / exclude specific files by using path patterns in the settings dialog.

It will also detect when you move, copy, or delete a watched LESS file and offer to perform the same operation on the corresponding CSS file(s).

The plugin is open source, so you can view and fork the source code on GitHub if you like.