LESS in Web Compiler for Visual Studio 2019 stopped to work

[IgorDRTZ]

It worked for years.

Yesterday for no reason (?) I'm not able to compile LESS files any more.

I tried to

• reinstall the Web Compiler extension,
• reinstall Web Essentials 2019 extension,
• reinstall the whole Visual Studio 2019 for 3 times,
• start a new project from scratch

I do not know if some automatic update happened under the hoods, but basically, every time I try to compile a LESS file I get:

module.js:471
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module 'C:\Users\igor\AppData\Local\Temp\WebCompiler1.12.394\node_modules\less\bin\lessc'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:469:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:417:25)
at Module.runMain (module.js:604:10)
at run (bootstrap_node.js:390:7)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:150:9)
at bootstrap_node.js:505:3

Thanks for any help!

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