Packyderm

A small module that pulls common configuration files from npm or Bower packages, and gives them to you as an object.

Maybe you have a module called Awesome, and it references a config file at the root of your project called awesome.json. An Awesome-compatible project may also want to get information from dependent Awesome-compatible projects installed via npm or Bower.

Installation

npm install packyderm --save

Usage

var packyderm = require('packyderm');

// Your config file can be JSON or YML
var AWESOME_CONFIG = 'awesome.json';

// Our library's wrapper function
function findAwesomeLibraries(libraries, cb) {
  var libraries = libraries.concat(['SELF']);

  packyderm(libraries, AWESOME_CONFIG, function(err, configs) {
    cb(configs);
  });
}

packyderm(libraries, configFile, cb)

Looks for libraries inside node_modules and bower_components inside the current working directory, and pulls in files with the filename configFile.

• libraries (Array of Strings): names of packages to look for.
  • You can also add an item called SELF, which will look for a config file in the current working directory.
• configFile (String): filename of the config file. Can be .json or .yml.
• cb(err, configs) (Function): callback to run when processing is done.
  • configs is an object of packages found. Each key is a package name (or SELF), and the value is the config found.