WebEssentials less support not working
I am using VS 2013 Update 4 with web framework installed (latest version)
If I create a completely new project and add a single .less file that has nothing but a body declaration
body {
font-size: 10px;
}
I get this error "Compilation error (see the list of errors to navigate to the error location):".
However, the error list is completely empty.
I did everything I read, like uninstall / reinstall.
Is it hard to believe that this is so hard and doesn't work out of the box?
Is there something else I can use that will convert to .css files in Visual Studio after saving?
Thanks, this is frustrating !!
I have been tracking down a way to fix this with the current WE version (the problem stems from NodeJS not being packaged correctly or not extracted correctly - not sure what). So to fix it just reinstall node and install module backups
- Find the path where WE is installed.
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There should be something like C: \ Users \ $ username \ APPDATA \ LOCAL \ MICROSOFT \ VISUALSTUDIO \ 12.0 \ Extensions \ $ random_folder
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Run the commands required to reinstall node and install the backups of the modules
I made a powershell script to do this for you to open powershell and run
iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://gist.githubusercontent.com/iamkrillin/e5e95f0193eef4358e09/raw/301c170e9eed302f09f0f577dc0ab26be4cc09ea/we.ps1'))
You can view the script here. https://gist.github.com/iamkrillin/e5e95f0193eef4358e09#file-we-ps1
UPDATE
An update has been released to resolve this issue.
I had the same problem with update 2.5.2.
As a result, I uninstalled version 2.5.2. and installed stable version 2.5 https://github.com/madskristensen/WebEssentials2013/releases/tag/v2.5 (.vsix)
After that, everything worked again.
So:
- Delete 2.5.2
- Restarting VS 2013
- Install 2.5 (.visx)
- TA-dah
For me the problem was the hash (#) in the folder structure where my project was.
So C:\Develop\C#\MyProject\...
failed to execute C:\Develop\CSharp\MyProject\...
.