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Assets paths in LESS using Symfony

Using Symfony2 and LESS, I'm having a hard time to find a nice way to import assets. E.g, if I want to import an asset in my LESS-file located in @bundle/Resources/public/css/file.less, and the asset is located at: /web/assets/vendor/foo/bar.less (considering / as project root).

Using ../../../../../../web/assets/vendor/foo/bar works, which isn't very pretty. /web/assets/vendor/foo/bar doesn't work either, since LESS doesn't know where the project is located.

Are there any prettier solutions than above?

Solution

  • I solved this by switching to Less.php, and then specifying a path in my config.yml. Full example:

    #config.yml
assetic:
    filters:
        lessphp:
            apply_to: "\.less$"
            paths:
                - "%kernel.root_dir%/../web"

    Which made it possible to use e.g:

    @import 'assets/vendor/foo/bar';