package-resolve

Simple way to get the package.json for any installed package.

This finds the package.json for any package installed in node_modules so that if can be accessed by the running server.

It can also find the main key and a style key as well as returning the package.json as an object or the css as a string.

This package uses native Promises throughout.

Install

npm install package-resolve

Example

The example is based on having installed bootstrap. It does not need to have been required.

Pack = require('package-resolve');
pack = new Pack('bootstrap');

pack.package()
.then (file) =>
  // file contains the path of the package.json file
.catch (err) =>
  // err contains a descriptive error such as "File not found"

Usage

new

Pack = require('package-resolve');
pack = new Pack(<package to find>);

This should be passed the name of the package to find as listed under dependencies in our package.json.

package

pack.package()
.then (file) =>
  // file contains the path of the package.json file
.catch (err) =>
  // err contains a descriptive error such as "File not found"

This returns a Promise that resolves to the full path of the package.json file for this dependency.

resolve

pack.resolve()
.then (file) =>
  // file contains the path of the `main` file in the package.json
.catch (err) =>
  console.error(err);

style

pack.style()
.then (file) =>
  // file contains the path of the file referred to in the style key
.catch (err) =>
  console.error(err);

readPackage

pack.readPackage()
.then (obj) =>
  // obj contains the contents of package.json as an object
.catch (err) =>
  console.error(err);

readStyle

pack.readPackage()
.then (css) =>
  // css contains the css as a string
.catch (err) =>
  console.error(err);

Problems

Any issues or comments would be appreciated at Github

Pull requests are welcome.