Consider using .less files instead of .css files for default

[scottmas]

Nice work! It gives me shivers of happiness to see that 20kb download size for a fully functional app.

However, I just barely ran preact create my-test-app and it doesn't come with built in LESS support, just boring old .css files. Or is there a config to use LESS? Do you need to bump the NPM version? Since I see in your examples folder that LESS should be supported.

[scottmas]

My mistake. LESS files build just fine if you just change the extension.

May be worth considering generating .less files by default though.

Although I know there is quite a bit of precedent for doing CSS files by default (React Create App, Angular CLI), I think that's the wrong decision. Lots of developers won't even know the CLI supports a CSS preprocessor, and rather than figure out that they can use a preprocessor, they just forge onward with raw css. This has actually happened to me before in an Angular CLI project I inherited.

Less is pretty widely understood, and I just can't imagine any developer in their right mind wanting to write raw css.

[developit]

FWIW I'm a less user as well, but I don't want to push it on anyone. I can't remember if we have it in yet, but there is supposed to be a --less option in create that sets less up as the default. Same for sass.

[scottmas]

Good point. Documenting the flags on create probably is a better option. Is a better forward path for supporting sass or postcss.