Replacements for read-package-up

pkg-types

pkg-types provides a similar API and strong types.

For example:

import { readPackageJSON } from 'pkg-types'
import { readPackageUp } from 'read-package-up'

const packageJson = await readPackageUp() 
const packageJson = await readPackageJSON() 

Similarly, you can get hold of the path via resolvePackageJSON:

import { resolvePackageJSON } from 'pkg-types'

const packageJsonPath = await resolvePackageJSON()

empathic

empathic provides a more generic way to find files and directories upwards.

It can be combined with node:fs to read package.json files:

import fs from 'node:fs/promises'
import * as pkg from 'empathic'
import { readPackageUp } from 'read-package-up'

const packageJson = await readPackageUp() 
const packageJsonPath = pkg.up() 
const packageJson = packageJsonPath ? JSON.parse(await readFile(packageJsonPath, 'utf8')) : undefined

NOTE

This is of course a more manual way to read the package.json file, so one of the other options may be more attractive.