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 --save read-pkg-up

Usage

js
var readPkgUp = require('read-pkg-up');

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

API

readPkgUp([options])

Returns a promise that resolves to a 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
• find-up - Find a file by walking up parent directories
• pkg-conf - Get namespaced config from the closest package.json

License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus