# Variables.less not updating with grunt watch?

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/variables-less-not-updating-with-grunt-watch/2132
**Category:** sage
**Created:** 2014-08-19T19:29:24Z
**Posts:** 4

## Post 1 by @bandwidther — 2014-08-19T19:29:25Z

Hi everyone, I’m just coming back to WordPress/Roots and am a little new to grunt/less.

I’ve setup everything fine, but I’m having one problem, which is when I am running “grunt watch” it seems to update for files like \_header.less for instance, but not for files like “variables.less” in the bootstrap folder. It just doesn’t recognize that I have made a change to the LESS, until I run “grunt dev” and of course I would like it to auto update using grunt watch like the other less files.

How can I get Variables.less to automatically update like other less files using grunt watch/live reload.

Sorry if this is more of a workflow question. Thanks in advance.

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## Post 2 by @cfx — 2014-08-19T20:03:40Z

First check this out:  
[http://discourse.roots.io/t/no-less-extensions-in--bootstrap-less/2101/9](http://discourse.roots.io/t/no-less-extensions-in--bootstrap-less/2101/9)

If after reading that you still want `grunt watch` to monitor `assets/vendor/bootstrap/less/variables.less` then just add it to the list of files that `grunt watch` monitors: [https://github.com/roots/roots/blob/master/Gruntfile.js#L126](https://github.com/roots/roots/blob/master/Gruntfile.js#L126)

[Enjoy it while it lasts :wink:](https://github.com/roots/roots/issues/1110)

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## Post 3 by @bandwidther — 2014-08-19T20:30:38Z

Thanks so much, very helpful.

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## Post 4 by @ben — 2022-02-26T02:58:50Z