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cypresslab/less-elephant-bundle
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Integrates LessElephant into Symfony2

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[](#lesselephantbundle-)

A Bundle to use the [LessElephant](https://github.com/matteosister/LessElephant) library in a Symfony2 project.

This bundle scans your [less projects](http://lesscss.org/) on every request, and checks if they needs to be recompiled. It takes care of dependencies, so you can use less with **@import** without problems. You don't need javascript or manual excution of **lessc** anymore

[Installation](https://github.com/matteosister/LessElephantBundle/blob/master/Resources/docs/installation.md)

[Integrate bootstrap in Symfony2 and compile less on the fly](https://github.com/matteosister/LessElephantBundle/blob/master/Resources/docs/bootstrap.md)

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

**Add the configuration in your config file (for the dev environment)**

*app/config\_dev.yml*

```
cypress_less_elephant:
    less_binary_path: "/usr/local/bin/lessc"
    less_projects:
        my-first-project:
            source_folder: %kernel.root_dir%/../src/Cypress/DemoBundle/Resources/public/bootstrap/less
            source_file: bootstrap.less
            destination_css: %kernel.root_dir%/../src/Cypress/DemoBundle/Resources/public/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css
        another-project:
            .....
    force_compile: ~

```

**less\_binary\_path** (optional) is the path to your lessc binary. LessElephant try to find it with "which lessc". So, if you are on windows, you need this

**less\_projects** (at least 1) define an entry for each of your less projects. All three parameters are mandatory

- *source\_folder* the folder where all your less files resides
- *source\_file* the main less file. Usually this is a file that contains many *@import* directive
- *destination\_css* the destination css. **This file needs to be writable by web server user** (for example on linux *www-data*)

**force\_compile** (optional) default: false. If it is true, we force the compilation for each request.

**Add the stylesheets to your templates**

*assetic*

```
{% stylesheets filter="yui_css"
    "@CypressDemoBundle/Resources/public/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css" %}

{% endstylesheets %}
```

*without assetic*

```

```

Enjoy!

How it works
------------

[](#how-it-works)

This bundle register an event listener that, on every request, check if the projects defined in the config\_dev.yml files are in "clean" state or needs recompile.

If the project do not need to be recompiled, it adds a really small overhead to symfony, just the time to check a bunch of files.

Read the [LessElephant readme](https://github.com/matteosister/LessElephant) for other useful informations

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity26

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity43

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 78.1% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/212723?v=4)[Matteo Giachino](/maintainers/matteosister)[@matteosister](https://github.com/matteosister)

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Top Contributors

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