A Gulp task pseudo-code for exporting from Pattern Lab into an adjacent style guide directory

gulp-style-guide-export.js

/******************************************************
 * PATTERN LAB NODE
 * EDITION-NODE-GULP
 * The gulp wrapper around patternlab-node core, providing tasks to interact with the core library and move supporting frontend assets.
******************************************************/
var gulp = require('gulp'),
  path = require('path'),
  browserSync = require('browser-sync').create(),
  sass = require('gulp-sass'),
  concat = require('gulp-concat'),
  uglify = require('gulp-uglify'),
  chalk = require('chalk'),
  copy = require('gulp-copy'),
  gulpRemoveHtml = require('gulp-remove-html');



/******************************************************
 * COPY TASKS - stream assets from source to destination
******************************************************/

// This is the task that exports the results from Pattern Lab
// into the Jekyll style guide that lives outside of this repository
gulp.task('copy:export-to-styleguide', function (done) {

    // Export public/patterns directory to style guide's includes
    // This is used to include the actual code into the code samples
    gulp.src(['public/patterns/**/*', '!public/patterns/**/*.rendered.html'])
        .pipe(gulp.dest('../[style-guide-directory]/_includes/patterns'));

    // Export public/patterns directory to style guide patterns directory
    // This is used to pipe the live patterns into the iframe
    gulp.src(['public/patterns/**/*', '!public/patterns/**/*.rendered.html'])
        .pipe(gulp.dest('../[style-guide-directory]/patterns'));

    // Export css directory to style guide css directory
    gulp.src('public/css/**/*')
        .pipe(gulp.dest('../[style-guide-directory]/css'));

    // Export js directory to style guide js directory
    gulp.src('public/js/**/*')
        .pipe(gulp.dest('../[style-guide-directory]/js'));

    // Export icons to style guide root directory
    gulp.src('public/icons.svg')
        .pipe(gulp.dest('../[style-guide-directory]'));

    // Export images directory to style guide images directory
    gulp.src('public/images/**/*')
        .pipe(gulp.dest('../[style-guide-directory]/images'));

    // Export images directory to style guide images directory
    gulp.src('public/images/**/*')
        .pipe(gulp.dest('../[style-guide-directory]/images'));

    done();
});


gulp.task('patternlab:build', gulp.series([PL-specific tasks], build));




/******************************************************
 * COMPOUND TASKS
******************************************************/
gulp.task('style-guide-export', gulp.series('patternlab:build', 'copy:export-to-styleguide', 'strip'));

This copy job is duplicated above:
// Export images directory to style guide images directory gulp.src('public/images/**/*')