multiple processes of the same less file

[pixsrv]

looks like plugin creates as many processes as profiles are there

all my profiles are created fo specific selection of files
these selections don't overlap themselfs

but what is the most strange
that when i run plugin on file which is not a part of any selection then it kills plugin
in fact plugin runs out of memory :(

i raised an issue on intellij (webstorm) but they instructed me to raise it here

[nitinsurana]

Same here... I do a checkout of another branch and boom, there are 130+ processes running in my intellijIdea showing compiling the .less files to .css and most are repeated more than once.

[bluemoehre]

Same problem here... starts getting really painful when you add more and more components/modules and then switch the branch. It blocks the work for minutes.

[nitinsurana]

@bluemoehre I resorted to using a gulp watch task, instead of the plugin.

/* jshint ignore:start */

var gulp = require('gulp');
var less = require('gulp-less');
var sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps');

var srcLess = [
// here go your less files if you want to specify them one by one
];
var dstCss = 'src/main/webapp/webresources/css';

gulp.task('less2css', function () {
    return gulp.src('src/main/webapp/webresources/less/main.less')
        .pipe(sourcemaps.init())
        .pipe(less())
        .pipe(sourcemaps.write())
        .pipe(gulp.dest(dstCss));
});

gulp.task('watchLess', ['less2css'], function () {
    gulp.watch('src/main/webapp/webresources/less/*.less', ['less2css']);
});

/* jshint ignore:end */

[pixsrv]

i use this method and it transpils my less files in 5 to 7 secs
when i was using intellij-lessc-plugin it was 3 to 12 minutes!
so unfortunately i abandon intellij-lessc-plugin at all :(

[bluemoehre]

I tried also using Gulp now. Took some minutes to figure out how it works, but it is a lot faster and without any bugs so far.