package.json has problems with '--config'

[jason0x43]

Say I have this file structure:

/path/to/project
    package.json
/tmp
    some_file.js

If I cd into /tmp and run prettier --config /path/to/project/package.json some_file.js, the values in the "prettier" key in the package.json are ignored. However, if I have this structure:

/path/to/project
    .prettierrc
/tmp
    some_file.js

and run prettier --config /path/to/project/.prettierrc some_file.js, the config values in .prettierrc are used.

[jason0x43]

From a quick look, it seems like the problem might be that when prettier is loading a package.json file (or any config file) specified with --config, it treats the entire file as a config file. However, when loading a package.json file during config discovery, prettier pulls out the "prettier" property.

[azz]

^ I've opened an issue with cosmiconfig

[jason0x43]

Great, thanks