LESS – The Dynamic Stylesheet

LESS

You might have heard until now of LESS and you might know it has something to do with CSS and styling websites, but I am quite sure that not many people really know what LESS actually is and why is it so special that it got its own name.

Unlike CSS, LESS is an open-source dynamic stylesheet language, with its first version being written in Ruby, but replaced by JavaScript later on. LESS is more complex than CSS is, providing variables, nesting, mixins (reusable classes), operators and functions and allows real-time compilation via LESS.js by the browser in use. LESS can run on both client- and server-side and can even be compiled into normal, plain CSS.

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