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|  | # read-pkg-up [](https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/read-pkg-up)
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|  | > Read the closest package.json file
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|  | ## Why
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|  | - [Finds the closest package.json](https://github.com/sindresorhus/find-up) | ||
|  | - [Gracefully handles filesystem issues](https://github.com/isaacs/node-graceful-fs) | ||
|  | - [Strips UTF-8 BOM](https://github.com/sindresorhus/strip-bom) | ||
|  | - [Throws more helpful JSON errors](https://github.com/sindresorhus/parse-json) | ||
|  | - [Normalizes the data](https://github.com/npm/normalize-package-data#what-normalization-currently-entails) | ||
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|  | ## Install
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|  | ``` | ||
|  | $ npm install read-pkg-up | ||
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|  | ## Usage
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|  | ```js | ||
|  | const readPkgUp = require('read-pkg-up'); | ||
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|  | (async () => { | ||
|  | 	console.log(await readPkgUp()); | ||
|  | 	/* | ||
|  | 	{ | ||
|  | 		pkg: { | ||
|  | 			name: 'awesome-package', | ||
|  | 			version: '1.0.0', | ||
|  | 			… | ||
|  | 		}, | ||
|  | 		path: '/Users/sindresorhus/dev/awesome-package/package.json' | ||
|  | 	} | ||
|  | 	*/ | ||
|  | })(); | ||
|  | ``` | ||
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|  | ## API
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|  | ### readPkgUp([options])
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|  | Returns a `Promise` for the result object. | ||
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|  | ### readPkgUp.sync([options])
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|  | Returns the result object. | ||
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|  | #### options
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|  | Type: `Object` | ||
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|  | ##### cwd
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|  | Type: `string`<br> | ||
|  | Default: `process.cwd()` | ||
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|  | Directory to start looking for a package.json file. | ||
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|  | ##### normalize
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|  | Type: `boolean`<br> | ||
|  | Default: `true` | ||
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|  | [Normalize](https://github.com/npm/normalize-package-data#what-normalization-currently-entails) the package data. | ||
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|  | ## Related
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|  | - [read-pkg](https://github.com/sindresorhus/read-pkg) - Read a package.json file | ||
|  | - [pkg-up](https://github.com/sindresorhus/pkg-up) - Find the closest package.json file | ||
|  | - [find-up](https://github.com/sindresorhus/find-up) - Find a file by walking up parent directories | ||
|  | - [pkg-conf](https://github.com/sindresorhus/pkg-conf) - Get namespaced config from the closest package.json | ||
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|  | ## License
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|  | MIT © [Sindre Sorhus](https://sindresorhus.com) |