Create and extract nar archives from Gulp

Install the task

$ npm install gulp-nar --save-dev

var gulp = require('gulp')
var nar = require('gulp-nar')

gulp.task('create', function () {
  gulp.src('package.json')
    .pipe(nar.create('releases/'))
})

gulp.task('create-executable', function () {
  gulp.src('package.json')
    .pipe(nar.createExecutable('releases/'))
})

gulp.task('extract', function () {
  gulp.src('app.nar')
    .pipe(nar.extract('app/'))
})

See gulpfile.js for more examples

Creates an archive according to the package.json configuration

• path string Destination directory for the nar archive. Default to current directory
• options object Archive creation options

Creates an executable binary-like archive

• path string Destination directory for the nar archive. Default to current directory
• options object Executable creation options

Extract archive content into a directory

• path string Destination directory for the extracted files. Default to current directory
• options object Archive extract options

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