Distribute CSS files in releases

[rgarcia]

material-ui would be much more user-friendly if it were possible to download it as a set of CSS files and examples. Currently there is a high barrier to using the project unless you're familiar with node/npm/browserify/react.

relates to #58 #63 #78

[TrySpace]

I completely agree.

I tried "solving" this by doing: @import "node_modules/material-ui/example/src/less/main.less"; which sortof works, I can't seem to find the right .less in the src.

Which is very messy, and also, there's WAY too many overrides and dependencies.
At least each component should be possible to include separately (which is possible react-wise, but not less wise) it is now overriding a few custom css really can't be bothered "re-overriding".

As this project is right now, it's only suitable for starting from scratch, as it is too dependent on deploying as is, and start expanding from the forked repo.

[gpbl]

AFAIK the project was intended for react-based applications: there are other frameworks implementing only the CSS. I guess the framework is meant to work with our own styles, so a compiled .css file doesn't make sense.

Sure the docs should be more explicit about this (and provide better examples). I understand users having problems implementing it: not everybody uses less, gulp, es6 nor browserify.

@TrySpace the docs app may help to understand how to build the less files.

[hai-cea]

I think it would be useful to offer compiled js and css files. However, since these components depend on react, developers will at least need to understand how to use react components.

It would also be really nice if we can customize this build and developers can just pick and choose which components get included in the compiled files.

Also relates to #56

[hai-cea]

This may not be necessary if we do #30 .

[hai-cea]

CSS / LESS files are no longer needed as of v0.8