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+This package provides tasks to work with npm.
+
+# Example
+
+a very simple example looks like this 
+
+```js
+require('gulp-tasks-npm')();
+
+```
+
+a more complex example may look like this
+
+```js
+
+require('gulp-tasks-npm'({
+    
+    user: "username",
+    password: "password",
+    buildVersion: "1.0.0",
+    strictSsl: false,
+    registery: "http://myprivateregistry"
+});
+
+```
+
+
+# Api
+
+## gulp-helper-npm(config)
+
+#### config
+
+#### config.user (optional)
+
+Type: `string`
+Default: undefined
+
+The user to use. This could also come from other npm sources like .npmrc
+
+#### config.password (optional)
+
+Type: `string`
+Default: undefined
+
+The user to use. This could also come from other npm sources like .npmrc
+
+
+#### config.buildVersion (optional)
+
+Type: `string`
+Default: undefined
+
+a semvar version in a string if provided a task named `packageJson-mutateVersion` is added that will mutate your package.json file to add that version
+
+ 
+#### config.email (optional)
+
+Type: `string`
+Default: undefined
+
+the email to use with npm tasks
+
+ 
+#### config.strictSsl (optional)
+
+Type: `bool`
+Default: true
+
+use strict ssl or not 
+
+#### config.registry (optional)
+
+Type: `string`
+Default: `https://registry.npmjs.org/`
+
+the npm registery to use
+
+#### config.npmObj (optional)
+
+Type: `object`
+Default: Calculated based on user input
+
+Defines the npm configuration object we use to do npm operations. If undefined one is built from your previous inputs, which is the prefered method to interact with.
+
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+var gulp = require('gulp');
+require('./index.js')();
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+var npmWrapper = require("grunt-npm-helper/lib/npm-wrapper");
+var jsonTransform = require('gulp-json-transform');
+var gutil = require('gulp-util');
+var gulp = require('gulp');
+var publishDeps = [];
+module.exports = function(config){
+    config = config || {};
+    config.user = config.user || undefined;
+    config.password = config.password ||  undefined;
+    config.buildVersion = config.buildVersion || undefined;
+    config.email = config.email || undefined;
+    config.strictSsl = config.strictSsl || true;
+    config.registry = config.registry || "https://registry.npmjs.org/";
+    config.npmObj = config.npmObj || {
+                registry: config.registry ,
+                "strict-ssl": config.strictSsl,
+                username: config.user,
+                "_password": config.password,
+                loglevel: "http",
+                email: config.email
+            };
+
+if(config.buildVersion){
+    gulp.task('packageJson-mutateVersion', function() {
+	gulp.src("./package.json")
+	.pipe(jsonTransform((data)=> {
+		data.version = config.buildVersion;
+        return data;
+	}))
+	.pipe(gulp.dest('.'));
+});    
+publishDeps.push('packageJson-mutateVersion');
+}
+else{
+    gutil.log('No build version passed, packageJson-mutateVersion task omitted')
+}
+
+
+gulp.task('npm-install', function(cb){
+   
+    npmWrapper(
+            ["install"], 
+            config.npmObj,
+            cb);
+   
+    
+});
+
+gulp.task('npm-publish', publishDeps, (callback)=>{
+     if(config.user && !config.password){
+        gutil.log('username specified but no password specified');
+        process.exit(1);
+     }
+     if(!config.password && config.user){
+         gutil.log('password specified but no password specified');
+        process.exit(1);
+     }
+     
+     npmWrapper(
+            ["publish"], 
+            config.npmObj,
+            callback
+    );
+});
+    
+    
+}
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+{
+  "name": "gulp-tasks-npm",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "adds npm install and publish tasks to gulp",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+ssh://git@github.com/tparnell8/gulp-tasks-npm.git"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "gulp",
+    "npm"
+  ],
+  "author": "Tommy Parnell",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/tparnell8/gulp-tasks-npm/issues"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/tparnell8/gulp-tasks-npm#readme",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "grunt-npm-helper": "0.0.2",
+    "gulp": "^3.9.1",
+    "gulp-json-transform": "^0.3.2",
+    "gulp-util": "^3.0.7"
+  }
+}