made-in-akira/node_modules/read-pkg-up

read-pkg-up

Read the closest package.json file

Why

• Finds the closest package.json
• Gracefully handles filesystem issues
• Throws more helpful JSON errors
• Normalizes the data

Install

$ npm install read-pkg-up

Usage

const readPkgUp = require('read-pkg-up');

(async () => {
	console.log(await readPkgUp());
	/*
	{
		packageJson: {
			name: 'awesome-package',
			version: '1.0.0',
			…
		},
		path: '/Users/sindresorhus/dev/awesome-package/package.json'
	}
	*/
})();

API

readPkgUp(options?)

Returns a Promise<object> or Promise<undefined> if no package.json was found.

readPkgUp.sync(options?)

Returns the result object or undefined if no package.json was found.

options

Type: object

cwd

Type: string
Default: process.cwd()

Directory to start looking for a package.json file.

normalize

Type: boolean
Default: true

Normalize the package data.

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Related

• read-pkg - Read a package.json file
• pkg-up - Find the closest package.json file
• find-up - Find a file by walking up parent directories
• pkg-conf - Get namespaced config from the closest package.json