Documentation missing on creating a custom importer or fileLoader about less-docs HOT 3 CLOSED

Basically my opinion is that it is not officially supported. I've been
trying to work towards it, but its a long way off.
Once the guy you introduced via email is finished, it will be supported and
we can document.
At that point it should be a documented api that isn't broken without very
good reason.

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True. Once file access is abstracted away, you wouldn't have to rewrite the entire importer / fileLoader.

I got this to work by borrowing the browser implementation and modifying it quite a bit for file loading. Previously, I approached the problem by creating a fake HTTP server (in JavaScript) and responding to XHR requests with file responses. Which just felt very stupid, since Less was doing a http request, and I was intercepting with a mock server and fulfilling the same request on the same computer.

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closing for now

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