A utility for finding an npm package in the directory hierarchy that matches specific criteria.
It uses find-up to walk up the
filesystem, checking each package.json until it finds a match.
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Features
Search upwards for a package.json file matching custom conditions
Configurable matcher function for defining what counts as a match
Returns the found directory path and the parsed package.json
Optionally normalize the package.json using npm's
normalize-package-data
Async, Promise-based API
Fully typed with TypeScript
Install @simbo/find-up-package from the npm registry:
npm i [-D] @simbo/find-up-package
For a complete API reference, see the documentation.
import { findUpPackage } from '@simbo/find-up-package';
const result = await findUpPackage();
if (result) {
console.log(`Found package.json in: ${result.path}`);
console.log(result.packageJson.name, result.packageJson.version);
}