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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)
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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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## Install
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```
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$ npm install --save read-pkg-up
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```
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## Usage
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```js
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var readPkgUp = require('read-pkg-up');
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readPkgUp().then(function (result) {
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	console.log(result);
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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'
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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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### readPkgUp([options])
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Returns a promise that resolves to a result object.
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### readPkgUp.sync([options])
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Returns a result object.
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#### options
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##### cwd
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Type: `string`  
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Default: `.`
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Directory to start looking for a package.json file.
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##### normalize
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Type: `boolean`  
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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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## Related
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- [read-pkg](https://github.com/sindresorhus/read-pkg) - Read a 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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## License
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MIT © [Sindre Sorhus](http://sindresorhus.com)
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