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How to generate sourcemaps in Bundle Transformer's Less compiler?

I am using the Bundle Transformer to compile Less to CSS on my .NET web project, which seemed like a very fast and easy way to do it.

However I can't find the option to configure the Less compilation to generate CSS sourcemaps. The documentation on the BundleTransformer site is not very helpful.

Solution

  • According to this thread on the CodePlex BundleTransformer discussion board it is impossible for various reasons, most notably that BundleTransformer is no longer considered a modern client-side build tool and BundleTransformer is recommending you go with Gulp or Grunt - which both have support starting in Visual Studio 2013.3 according to this Scott Hanselman article. Thought I'd share as I spent a lot of time researching and looking for this. I'm going to go with Gulp or Grunt.