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Reputation: 23189

Compass style libraries for LESS css?

SASS has Compass (a community maintained library of sass mixins/methods).

Does LESS have any supporting libraries that can compare to Compass? Listing anything would be helpful!

Upvotes: 50

Views: 19479

Answers (9)

haotang
haotang

Reputation: 5738

Try Preboot. It is a pretty cool LESS library from a member of Bootstrap team.

Upvotes: 1

Chris Jacob
Chris Jacob

Reputation: 12286

Another great mini-library...

Bootstrap
by Mark Otto, Designer at Twitter

Bootstrap is a super awesome pack of mixins and variables to be used in conjunction with LESS, a CSS preprocessor for faster and easier web development.

Demo/Site: http://getbootstrap.com/

Mixins: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/master/less/mixins

Github/Source: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap

Upvotes: 28

user950658
user950658

Reputation:

There's a new library called more-or-less which is similar lesshat but a lot faster since it does not use inline-javascript.
Just like lesshat it allows to use endless layers for e.g box-shadow or background-image.
It basically has all of the lesshat mixins plus a few other helpful functions.

  • .for()
  • .find()
  • .in()
  • .join()
  • .repeat()

requires Less 1.7.0 or later

Upvotes: 0

AJ Naidas
AJ Naidas

Reputation: 1434

This is an old question but let me share this recently made Bootstrap3-LESSHAT Boilerplate.

The Boilerplate has the LESS Hat Mixin Library (counterpart of Compass) set up as well as the Font Awesome Iconset.

Upvotes: 0

Danield
Danield

Reputation: 125611

Here are another couple of choices: lesshat and clearless

Also, this blog post compares 3 less libraries: less elements vs bootstrap vs lesshat.

From the post, it seems like both bootstrap and lesshat beat less elements,

however depending what you need you would choose between bootstrap and lesshat.

Bottom line, if you’re looking to completely redefine and systematize the way that you build websites, check out Bootstrap. However, if you’re just a LESS user looking for some mixins, I definitely recommend checking out LESS Hat.

PS:

If you're just look looking for some basic mixins, and for you - a whole library is overkill - then maybe this post from css-ticks is more for you.

Upvotes: 6

Manuel Ebert
Manuel Ebert

Reputation: 8539

Old question, but right now Lots of Love for Less (3L) is far more complete and generic than Preboot née Bootstrap!

Upvotes: 1

neoascetic
neoascetic

Reputation: 2556

Take a look at my compless repo. There I try to implement some features of Compass using less. Mixins are divided into categories in a way how it done in Compass' reference. Patches are welcome! :)

Upvotes: 9

Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller

Reputation: 1786

I just launched {lessins}, it is a library of common mixins, similar to bootstrap.less or less elements, but with a focus exclusively on mixins (the others include some unecessary variables, that seem remnants of other projects.)

I have also organized the mixins into bundles. Check it out: https://github.com/jdmiller82/-lessins-

Upvotes: 2

Litek
Litek

Reputation: 4888

There are less elements, but it's hardly a collection. I agree it would be nice to have something like this.

Upvotes: 20

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