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