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by deservingend 4862 days ago
What's always surprised me is people taking the compiled CSS and working directly off of that.

I thought the whole point was that since it's LESS, you can change things up really easily.
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lowboy 4862 days ago
Agreed. Most of the time you end up with a smaller file as it's easier to comment out the various modules as you're going as opposed to downloading customized builds from the website as you work.

Also, if Sass/Compass is more your cup of tea, there's a well-maintained port of Bootstrap[0].

[0]: https://github.com/jlong/sass-twitter-bootstrap

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autoreverse 4862 days ago
Because sometimes LESS is more (learning curve)
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dolphenstein 4862 days ago
Easy until you try to upgrade.
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lowboy 4862 days ago
It makes the upgrade process easier if you stick to only making changes in their variables.less file[0], or even better creating a copy of it and including that instead in bootstrap.less. Heck, you can even just create your own top-level myproject.less file and copy over the includes you need using bootstrap.less[1] as a template.

[0]: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/less/variab...

[1]: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/less/bootst...

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deservingend 4862 days ago
Just import bootstrap.less into your own project's main less file and go from there.
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