Less Web Development Cookbook

Over 110 practical recipes to help you write leaner, more efficient CSS code

About This Book

• Create and customize your website effectively and easily with Less Version 2
• Develop more efficient code, and decrease your investment in debugging complex code
• With implementation of the latest version Less.js V2, leverage Less separately from its node and browser and employ many other improvements, such as plugin support.
• Discover the dynamism of Less and manage your projects with efficiency and accuracy

Who This Book Is For

Aimed at those who want to overcome the limitations of CSS, through this book you will begin to harness the efficiency of Less by building advanced, responsive, and modern websites. Experienced web developers, students, and even web designers will find this guide very useful as they enhance their CSS skills.

In Detail

Less is a dynamic style sheet language to help you make your CSS code more maintainable, readable, and reusable. It provides impressive features to enhance your web development skills with complex code techniques necessary for responsive websites.

This book contains more than 110 practical recipes to help you develop efficient projects through CSS extensions including variables, mixins, and functions. Optimize your projects by debugging code to create style guides, build responsive grids, and integrate Less into your WordPress development workflow.

This book includes Less v2 code and covers powerful tools such as Bootstrap and a wide-range of additional prebuilt mixin libraries, allowing you to set up a powerful development environment with Node.js and Grunt.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting to Grips with the Basics of Less
Chapter 2: Debugging and Documenting Your Less Code
Chapter 3: Using Variables and Mixins
Chapter 4: Leveraging the Less Built-in Functions
Chapter 5: Extending and Referencing
Chapter 6: Advanced Less Coding
Chapter 7: Leveraging Libraries with Prebuilt Mixins
Chapter 8: Building a Layout with Less
Chapter 9: Using Bootstrap with Less
Chapter 10: Less and WordPress
Chapter 11: Compiling Less Real Time for Development Using Grunt