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read-pkg-up (6.0.0)

Published 2026-02-24 14:04:03 +00:00 by atheaadmin

Installation

Setup this registry in your project .npmrc file:

registry=

To install the package using npm, run the following command:

npm install read-pkg-up@6.0.0

or add it to the package.json file:

"read-pkg-up": "6.0.0"

For more information on the npm registry, see the documentation.

About this package

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 read-pkg-up

Usage

const readPkgUp = require('read-pkg-up');

(async () => {
	console.log(await readPkgUp());
	/*
	{
		package: {
			name: 'awesome-package',
			version: '1.0.0',
			…
		},
		path: '/Users/sindresorhus/dev/awesome-package/package.json'
	}
	*/
})();

API

readPkgUp([options])

Returns a Promise<object> or Promise<undefined> if no package.json was found.

readPkgUp.sync([options])

Returns the result object or undefined if no package.json was found.

options

Type: object

cwd

Type: string
Default: process.cwd()

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
• pkg-up - Find the closest 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

Dependencies

Dependencies

ID	Version
find-up	^4.0.0
read-pkg	^5.1.1
type-fest	^0.5.0

Development Dependencies

ID	Version
ava	^1.4.1
tsd	^0.7.3
xo	^0.24.0

Keywords

json read parse file fs graceful load package find up find-up findup look-up look search match resolve parent parents folder directory walk walking path

Details

npm

2026-02-24 14:04:03 +00:00

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Sindre Sorhus

Project Site

MIT

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Assets (1)

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Versions (2) View all

6.0.0 2026-02-24

8.0.0 2026-02-24