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find-up-sync

v1.0.2

Published

Find a file by walking up parent directories (barebones implementation, no dependencies)

Downloads

19

Readme

find-up-sync

Description

Find a file by walking up parent directories (barebones implementation, no dependencies).

Useful to automatically find the path to configuration files that should exist in a predefined directory. See example below.

Install

npm install --save find-up-sync

Example

Assume your filesystem has a structure like this:

/
└── home
    └── pvieira
        └── my-app
            ├── config
                └── email-key.txt
            └── xyz
                └── abc
                    └── find-key.js

We want to obtain the path to config/email-key.txt from any module in the application, without using relative paths or any other dependency specific to the application (such as a global __rootDir variable).

The find-key.js module will find the path:

var FindUp = require('find-up-sync');
var path = FindUp('config/email-key.txt');

// path === '/home/pvieira/my-app/config/email-key.txt'

Related modules

  • find-up - https://www.npmjs.com/package/find-up
  • look-up - https://www.npmjs.com/package/look-up
  • find-config - https://www.npmjs.com/package/find-config