gulp-assist

Display helpful information for your Gulp tasks

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gulp-assist presents basic info registered tasks in a stylish format by extending
gulp with an additional method to describe tasks and their flags. gulp-assist
does not modify existing gulp methods or API.

And info for each individual task including flags and their descriptions.

Install

$ npm install gulp-assist --save-dev

Usage

const gulp = require('gulp');
// initialize the module
require('gulp-assist')();
gulp.task('lint', () =>
    // ...
);
gulp.assist('lint', {
  desc: 'Analyzes code for errors and convention violations.',
  flags: {
    src: 'Specifies a directory / module to inspect, within the `src` directory.'
  }
});

API

default([options])

options

Example Usage of all options:

const gulp = require('gulp');
let taskName = 'default';
require('gulp-assist')({ gulp, taskName })

gulp

Type: Object
Default: null

The module has the ability to use a gulp instance already required. If this
option is not specified, the module will require gulp internally. In most cases
this will use the shared instance.

taskName

Type: String
Default: 'help'

The name of the task that gulp-assist should use as the entry point.

gulp.assist(taskName, options)

Registers a task with gulp-assist.

options

desc

Type: String
Default: null

A description of the task being registered.

flags

Type: Object
Default: null

An object whose keys represent a flag name. gulp-assist automagically prepends a
double hypen to each flag name when displaying task details. The value for each
key should represent the description of the flag.

License

MIT © Andrew Powell