If you've found this repo you've probably just seen my talk at Frontend NE! Below you can find a few links that helped me when I was learning gulp as well as a few articles explaining how npm and packages work!
If you want to find some example tasks for my gulpfile check out the tasks folder!
Feel free to tweet me @alexnewmn if you have any questions and let me know if you find any of this useful!
Getting Started With gulp - Travis Maynard
An Interactive Guide to package.json
[Journey of a Javascript Framework - Andrew Humphreys] (http://engineering.bedegaming.com/blog/2015/04/16/orchestra-the-journey-of-a-javascript-framework/)