Read a package.json file
- Gracefully handles filesystem issues
- Strips UTF-8 BOM
- Throws more helpful JSON errors
- Normalizes the data
$ npm install --save read-pkg
var readPkg = require('read-pkg');
readPkg().then(function (pkg) {
console.log(pkg);
//=> {name: 'read-pkg', ...}
});
readPkg(__dirname).then(function (pkg) {
console.log(pkg);
//=> {name: 'read-pkg', ...}
});
readPkg(path.join('unicorn', 'package.json')).then(function (pkg) {
console.log(pkg);
//=> {name: 'read-pkg', ...}
});Returns a promise that resolves to the parsed JSON.
Returns the parsed JSON.
Type: string
Default: .
Path to a package.json file or its directory.
Type: boolean
Default: true
Normalize the package data.
- read-pkg-up - Read the closest package.json file
- write-pkg - Write a
package.jsonfile - load-json-file - Read and parse a JSON file
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