Compiling LESS files to CSS files with Grunt

In this recipe, we will learn how to compile LESS files to CSS files with a task runner named Grunt.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will assume that you've already installed Visual Studio 2015 Community and that the installer automatically installed Node.js and npm.

After that, we will have to install all the modules we need to execute all the tasks we want to run.

How to do it...

We can use Grunt in two ways:

Without using Visual Studio, through the command line, using Command Prompt, Node.js, npm, and installing and...