I am trying to accomplish a few tasks that I feel like should be relatively basic but I am having a really hard time figuring what I am doing wrong.
I need to:

1. lint javascript that I have written,
2. concat javascript that I have written with 3rd party javascript downloaded via NPM,
3. uglify it
   I store paths in my package.json file, so I have this for my app libraries:

{
  ...,
  "paths": {
    "src": {
      "js": "./src/js/",
      "appLibraries": [
        "./node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js",
        "./node_modules/slick-carousel/slick/slick.js"
    },
    "dist": {
      "js": "./build/js"
    }
  }
}

I have a simple jshint function:

function lintScripts() {
    return gulp
        .src( pkg.paths.src.js + '**/*.js' )
        .pipe( $.jshint() )
        .pipe( $.jshint.reporter( 'jshint-stylish' )
}

This works fine. My function to actually compile my JS:

function scripts() {
    lintScripts();

    return gulp
    .src( pkg.paths.src.js + '**/*.js', pkg.paths.src.appLibraries )
    // do my other stuff
    .pipe( gulp.dest( pkg.paths.dist.js )
}

When I do this, I only get the first argument actually processed. I've tried swapping the src line for this: .src([ pkg.paths.src.js + '**/*.js', pkg.paths.src.appLibraries ]) since I know it can accept an array, but apparently it can't accept an array of arrays because I get this error: Invalid glob argument after ./src/js/**/*.js
I can get around this by updated my package.json paths to the following, but this seems silly and redundant:

{
  ...,
  "paths": {
    "src": {
      "js": "./src/js/",
      "appLibraries": [
        "./node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js",
        "./node_modules/slick-carousel/slick/slick.js",
        "./src/js/**/*.js"
    },
    "dist": {
      "js": "./build/js"
    }
  }
}

What am I missing???