LessCoffee

HTTP handlers for ASP.NET web sites that transform *.less and *.coffee files into CSS and JavaScript respectively on the fly.

As of version 2.0 the project uses an embedded version of nodejs (embedded as a resource and extracted at runtime) to run the latest versions of the LESS and CoffeeScript (previously it used less.js-windows and coffeescript-windows).

Install

If you're running Visual Studio 2010 then simply use the LessCoffee NuGet package.

PM> Install-Package LessCoffee

If you're using Visual Studio 2008 you'll need follow these manual steps:

• Copy LessCoffee.dll to your web application's /bin directory
• Add the following entries to your web.config file:

    <system.web>
        <httpHandlers>
            <add path="*.coffee" type="DotSmart.CoffeeScriptHandler, LessCoffee" verb="*" validate="false"/>
            <add path="*.less" type="DotSmart.LessCssHandler, LessCoffee" verb="*" validate="false"/>
        </httpHandlers>
    </system.web>

    <!-- IIS 7 -->
    <system.webServer>
        <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false"/>
        <handlers>
            <add path="*.coffee" type="DotSmart.CoffeeScriptHandler, LessCoffee" verb="*" name="DotSmart.CoffeeScriptHandler"/>
            <add path="*.less" type="DotSmart.LessCssHandler, LessCoffee" verb="*" name="DotSmart.LessCssHandler"/>
        </handlers>
    </system.webServer>

• If you're using IIS 6 then you will need to map the file extensions *.less and *.coffee to aspnet_isapi.dll