read-pkg-up

Read the closest package.json file

Why

Finds the closest package.json
Gracefully handles filesystem issues
Strips UTF-8 BOM
Throws more helpful JSON errors
Normalizes the data

Install

$ npm install read-pkg-up

Usage

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

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

API

readPkgUp([options])

Returns a Promise for the result object.

readPkgUp.sync([options])

Returns the result object.

options

cwd

Type: string
Default: process.cwd()

Directory to start looking for a package.json file.

normalize

Type: boolean
Default: true

Normalize the package data.

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