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less-loader

A Less loader for webpack. Compiles Less to CSS.

v13.0.0, 20 May 2026MITESM + CommonJSTypes: BundledBundler plugins and loaders
$ npm install less-loader
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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
5.4m
+6% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
1
Direct, from package.json
Last release
4 months ago
v13.0.0
GitHub stars
960
198 forks
Open issues / PRs
0 / 9
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
34

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
02m4m6m8mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 7.8m (16 Jun 2026)Low 2.7m (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

5,377,555 downloads last week, 24,648,626 in the last month. The 12-month change of +6% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months
473 in total
Latest version
13.0.0, 20 May 20264 months ago
First published
1 May 2012
Last push to GitHub
13 Sept 202612 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
0
Open pull requests
9
Commits, last 52 weeks
34
Dependents on npm
7,011

Major versions

  1. v13 first release 13.0.0, 20 May 2026
  2. v12 first release 12.0.0, 15 Jan 2024
  3. v11 first release 11.0.0, 17 May 2022
  4. v10 first release 10.0.0, 17 Jun 2021
  5. v9 first release 9.0.0, 13 May 2021
  6. v8 first release 8.0.0, 1 Feb 2021
  7. v7 first release 7.0.0, 25 Aug 2020
  8. v6 first release 6.0.0, 24 Apr 2020
  9. v5 first release 5.0.0, 29 Apr 2019
  10. v4 first release 4.0.0, 20 Mar 2017
  11. v3 first release 3.0.0, 8 Mar 2017
  12. v2 first release 2.0.0, 22 Dec 2014
  13. v0 first release 0.1.0, 1 May 2012

Recent releases

VersionPublished
13.0.020 May 2026
12.3.319 May 2026
12.3.211 Mar 2026
12.3.15 Feb 2026
12.3.01 May 2025
12.2.030 Jan 2024
12.1.019 Jan 2024
12.0.015 Jan 2024
11.1.427 Dec 2023
11.1.38 Jun 2023
11.1.231 May 2023
11.1.128 May 2023
11.1.06 Oct 2022
11.0.017 May 2022

Compatibility

Module format
ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>= 22.11.0
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
67 kB
Dependencies (1)
@types/less
Peer dependencies (3)
lesswebpack@rspack/core

Install

npm install less-loader

CDN

  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/less-loader@13.0.0/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/less-loader@13.0.0/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/less-loader@13.0.0
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.