On the fly LESS compiler for java web app?

Question

I am looking for a way to compile CSS LESS files on the server side on demand during development. For example if the browser makes a request to /assets/css/foo.css I want the se

Answer 1

I think what you are looking for is a Servlet Filter. I was not aware of an off the shelf one that does LESS compiling and would have started to make one using lesscss-java, but now I can see there is a larger project called Web Resource Optimizer for Java - wro4j with server side LESS support.