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.

$ npm install gulp-assist --save-dev

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.'
  }
});

Example Usage of all options:

const gulp = require('gulp');
let taskName = 'default';

require('gulp-assist')({ gulp, taskName })

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.

Type: String
Default: 'help'

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

Registers a task with gulp-assist.

Type: String
Default: null

A description of the task being registered.

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.

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