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kimcastle/laravel5-lessphp
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Bringing lessphp into Laravel

1.1.3(8y ago)01121[3 PRs](https://github.com/kimcastle/laravel5-lessphp/pulls)MITPHPPHP >=5.5.0

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laravel5-lessphp
================

[](#laravel5-lessphp)

lessphp is a compiler for LESS by PHP

(1) First, pull in the package through Composer.

```
"require": {
    "kimcastle/laravel5-lessphp": "1.0.0"
}
```

(2) And then, if using Laravel 5, include the service provider within config/app.php.

```
'providers' => [
    "Kimcastle\Laravel5Less\LessServiceProvider::class"
];
```

In the aliases section, add:

```
'Less' => Kimcastle\Laravel5Less\Facades\Less::class
```

(3) Uage

Within your models or controllers, you can perform modification to the outputted CSS. Here are some examples:

```
use Kimcastle\Laravel5Less\Facades\Less;

class TestController extend Controller
{
     public function less()
     {
          Less::modifyVars(['@externalBgColor' => 'red'])->compile('less_test');

          Less::modifyVars(['@externalBgColor' => '#ff0001'])->url('less_test', true);
     }
}
```

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

7

Last Release

3255d ago

Major Versions

0.1.x-dev → 1.1.22017-06-20

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![kimcastle](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2201158?v=4)](https://github.com/kimcastle "kimcastle (7 commits)")

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