gulp-less2js

This plugin converts variables from less stylesheets to JSON, to enable using them in JavaScripts. It uses some code taken from grunt-less2js, but has some different configuration options (it doesn't support creating file formats different than JSON, so the unnecessary options were ignored).

Getting Started

Install plugin as dependency using:

npm install gulp-less2js --save-dev

Using gulp-less2js task

In the most basic case gulp-less2js converts variables given in LESS stylesheet and changes their names to camelcase.

Running task:

gulp.task('extractLessVariables', function () {
    return gulp.src(SOURCE_FILE)
        .pipe($.less2js())
        .pipe(gulp.dest(DESTINATION_PATH));
});

will cause converting such file:

@test-color: red; 

into:

{
  "testColor": "#ff0000"
}

Options:

options.camelCase

• Type: Bool
• Default value: true

By default all variable names are converted to camelcase notation. It can be disabled by setting this option to false.

options.ignoreWithPrefix

• Type: String
• Default value: ''

If a variable starts with the ignoreWithPrefix, it will be omitted from the JSON file. For example: _ would ignore @_base.