mos-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

Installation

This module is installed via npm:

npm install mos-read-pkg-up --save

Usage

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

readPkgUp().then(result => {
	console.log(result);
	//> { pkg:
	//     { name: 'mos-read-pkg-up',
	//       version: '1.0.2',
	//       description: 'Read the closest package.json file',
	//       license: 'MIT',
	//       repository:
	//        { type: 'git',
	//          url: 'git+ssh://[email protected]/zkochan/read-pkg-up.git' },
	//       author:
	//        { name: 'Sindre Sorhus',
	//          email: '[email protected]',
	//          url: 'sindresorhus.com' },
	//       engines: { node: '>=0.10.0' },
	//       scripts: { test: 'xo && ava', md: 'mos' },
	//       files: [ 'index.js' ],
	//       keywords:
	//        [ 'json',
	//          'read',
	//          'parse',
	//          'file',
	//          'fs',
	//          'graceful',
	//          'load',
	//          'pkg',
	//          'package',
	//          'find',
	//          'up',
	//          'find-up',
	//          'findup',
	//          'look-up',
	//          'look',
	//          'file',
	//          'search',
	//          'match',
	//          'package',
	//          'resolve',
	//          'parent',
	//          'parents',
	//          'folder',
	//          'directory',
	//          'dir',
	//          'walk',
	//          'walking',
	//          'path' ],
	//       dependencies: { 'mos-read-pkg': '^1.1.2', 'find-up': '^1.0.0' },
	//       devDependencies: { ava: '*', mos: '^0.16.0', xo: '*' },
	//       bugs: { url: 'https://github.com/zkochan/read-pkg-up/issues' },
	//       readme: 'ERROR: No README data found!',
	//       homepage: 'https://github.com/zkochan/read-pkg-up#readme',
	//       _id: '[email protected]' },
	//    path: '/home/zoltan/src/read-pkg-up/package.json' }
});

API

readPkgUp([options])

Returns a promise for the result object.

readPkgUp.sync([options])

Returns a result object.

options

cwd

Type: string
Default: .

Directory to start looking for a package.json file.

normalize

Type: boolean
Default: true

Normalize the package data.

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

License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus