Zend certified PHP/Magento developer

“Best practice” editing CSS while in development to avoid cache rebuild time

I’m building my first Magento site after spending the last few years developing sites with other eCommerce engines – wow, Magento does everything differently huh?!

Not really best practice but how do you work with CSS/Less/Sass while you’re developing a site? I’m currently extending the CSS using _extend.less and have separate .less files for each section, such as body, typefaces and the product page.

But I’m finding refreshing the cache after each edit is getting in the way of my workflow.

How do you speed up your development time? Do you have a separate CSS file called from head that you merge at go-live time? Or do you disable the cache? Or do you do some other trick?

Interested to know – thanks!