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Package Health Score

88 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Key ecosystem project
maintenance
Sustainable
community
Active

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No known security issues

All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

All Versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
4.2.0	\|	08/2023	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
4.1.3	\|	06/2022		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
3.13.1	\|	12/2020		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
2.7.3	\|	10/2017		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
2.6.1	\|	03/2016		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

Apache-2.0

Security Policy

Yes

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Popularity

Key ecosystem project

Weekly Downloads (6,443,941)

GitHub Stars: 17.03K
Forks: 3.4K
Contributors: 240

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package less receives a total of 6,443,941 downloads a week. As such, we scored less popularity level to be Key ecosystem project.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package less, we found that it has been starred 17,032 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Active

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 240
Funding: No

A good and healthy external contribution signal for less project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

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Maintenance

Sustainable

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 185
Open PR: 32
Last Release: 1 year ago
Last Commit: 1 month ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of less based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Sustainable.

An important project maintenance signal to consider for less is that it hasn't seen any new versions released to npm in the past 12 months, and could be considered as a discontinued project, or that which receives low attention from its maintainers.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: >=6

Age: 14 years
Dependencies: 10 Direct
Versions: 132
Install Size: 2.84 MB
Dist-tags: 4
# of Files: 328
Maintainers: 5
TS Typings: Yes

less has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

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To help you get started, we've collected the most common ways that less is being used within popular public projects.

ibm-js / delite / themes / utils / compile.js View on Github

parser.parse(lessContent, function (error, tree) {
		if (error) {
			less.writeError(error);
			process.exit(1);
		}

		// Get output CSS
		var outputText = tree.toCSS({compress: false});

		// If the caller asked to output an AMD module rather than a plain CSS file, add define() wrapper around CSS.
		// Assumes no single quotes or other weird characters, although double quotes for url("...") are OK.
		if (/\.js$/.test(outputFile)) {
			outputText = "define(function(){ return '\\\n" + outputText.replace(/\n/mg, "\\\n") + "'; } );\n";
		}

		// Now write out that CSS as an AMD module
		console.log("writing:", outputFile);
		var fd = fs.openSync(outputFile, "w");
		fs.write(fd, outputText, 0, "utf-8", function (f) {

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FAQs

What is less?

Leaner CSS. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for less, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is less popular?

The npm package less receives a total of 6,443,941 weekly downloads. As such, less popularity was classified as a key ecosystem project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is less well maintained?

We found indications that less maintenance is sustainable demonstrating some project activity. We saw a total of 240 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is less safe to use?

The npm package less was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 22 November-2024, at 07:25 (UTC).

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