Twitter Bootstrap LESS with Node.js & Express

Question

Since Twitter Bootstrap 2 is out, I wanted to integrate that into my Node.js project. Unfortunately, there's something wrong with the less compiler and I can't get it to work. I put all files into the public folder and set up a new project with express -c less newproj. and added the lines for less

less = require('less'); app.use(express.compiler({ src: __dirname + '/public', enable: ['less'] })); 

All Node tells me is:

Express server listening on port 3000 in development mode undefined 

On the client side I get a 500 (Internal Server Error) for the bootstrap.css file, which should be compiled by lessc.

lessc bootstrap.less 

Works fine.

Anybody knows how to solve the issue?

Answer 1

For posterity, this has changed a lot in recent Express:

app.use(require('less-middleware')({ src: __dirname + '/public' })); app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));  // This is just boilerplate you should already have app.use(express.bodyParser()); app.use(express.methodOverride()); app.use(app.router);