You may think that imports result in many unnecessary HTTP requests that will slow down the loading time of your page, and that's true! If we do so, we really don't care about using multiple files, since at the end, everything will be concatenated into just one! I have the style.less before the less.js as described above etc. Yet less.js does not seem to compile on the fly as it should. I’ve also added .less mimetype to IIS7 as text/css and it still does not work.
You can test that your gulp installation was successful by typing gulp -v in the terminal. You should see...