Grunt 0.4 less task : How to not concatenate destination files

Question

I want to generate .css partial files from the corresponding .less files

I use the latest versions available from npm, grunt@0.4.0, grunt-contrib-less@0.5.0

Answer 1

Have a look at assemble-less as well. It's based on grunt-contrib-less but is specifically geared towards what you're looking to do. (full disclosure, I'm a maintainer of the project as well).

For this specific use-case, the advantage that assemble-less has over grunt-contrib-less is that it has a concat: false option that enables you to compiles LESS files individually using any of the src-dest patterns in Grunt. assemble-less also has a require option that will automatically prepend "global" less files (such as variables.less or mixins.less) onto all of the other specified less files, negating the need to actually add @import statements inside each less file.

So, for example, with assemble-less you would do:

  less: {
    development: {
      options: {
        concat: false
      }
      files: {
        "htdocs/css/": "htdocs/less/*.less"
      }
    }
  }