Package Health Score

70 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Influential project
maintenance
Inactive
community
Sustainable

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Security

No known security issues

All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
9.0.1	\|	11/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
8.1.0	\|	08/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
7.1.0	\|	02/2022		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
6.0.0	\|	03/2021		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
5.2.0	\|	07/2019	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

MIT

Security Policy

Yes

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Popularity

Influential project

Weekly Downloads (40,513,944)

GitHub Stars: 166
Forks: 24
Contributors: 9

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package read-pkg receives a total of 40,513,944 downloads a week. As such, we scored read-pkg popularity level to be Influential project.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package read-pkg, we found that it has been starred 166 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Sustainable

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 9
Funding: Yes

This project has seen only 10 or less contributors.

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Maintenance

Inactive

Commit Frequency

No Recent Commits

Open Issues: 0
Open PR: 0
Last Release: 1 year ago
Last Commit: 1 year ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of read-pkg based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Inactive.

An important project maintenance signal to consider for read-pkg is that it hasn't seen any new versions released to npm in the past 12 months, and could be considered as a discontinued project, or that which receives low attention from its maintainers.

In the past month we didn't find any pull request activity or change in issues status has been detected for the GitHub repository.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: >=18

Age: 9 years
Dependencies: 5 Direct
Versions: 18
Install Size: 6.92 kB
Dist-tags: 1
# of Files: 5
Maintainers: 1
TS Typings: No

read-pkg has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

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simpleweb / romulus-cli / generators / base / index.js View on Github

//  copy shell scripts
    this.fs.copyTpl(
      this.templatePath('bin/bump-ios.sh'),
      this.destinationPath('bin/bump-ios.sh'),
      { name: this.name }
    );

    //  copy android files
    this.fs.copyTpl(
      this.templatePath('android/MainActivity.java'),
      this.destinationPath(`android/app/src/main/java/com/${this.name.toLowerCase()}/MainActivity.java`),
      { name: this.name, nameLower: this.name.toLowerCase() }
    );

    // merge the two package json files
    const currentPackage = readPkg.sync();

    writePkg.sync(
      deepExtend(currentPackage, {
        "private": true,
        "scripts": {
          "pretty": "prettier --config .prettierrc.js --write '**/*.js'",
          "lint": "eslint --fix './App/**/*.js'",
          "bump": "./bin/bump-ios.sh",
          "test": "jest --verbose",
          "coverage": "jest --coverage",
          "test:watch": "npm test -- --watch",
          "pretest": "yarn run lint"
        },
        "lint-staged": {
          "App/**/*.js": ["yarn run pretty", "yarn run lint", "git add"]
        },

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read-pkg

> Read a package.json file

Why

Install

npm install read-pkg

Usage

import {readPackage} from 'read-pkg';

console.log(await readPackage());
//=&gt; {name: 'read-pkg', …}

console.log(await readPackage({cwd: 'some-other-directory'}));
//=&gt; {name: 'unicorn', …}

API

readPackage(options?)

Returns a Promise with the parsed JSON.

readPackageSync(options?)

Returns the parsed JSON.

options

Type: object

cwd

Type: URL | string
Default: process.cwd()

Current working directory.

normalize

Type: boolean
Default: true

Normalize the package data.

parsePackage(packageFile, options?)

Parses an object or string into JSON.

packageFile

Type: object | string

An object or a stringified object to be parsed as a package.json.

options

Type: object

normalize

Type: boolean
Default: true

Normalize the package data.

read-package-up - Read the closest package.json file
write-package - Write a package.json file
load-json-file - Read and parse a JSON file

read-pkg dependencies

@types/normalize-package-data normalize-package-data parse-json type-fest unicorn-magic

read-pkg development dependencies

ava tsd xo

FAQs

What is read-pkg?

Read a package.json file. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for read-pkg, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is read-pkg popular?

The npm package read-pkg receives a total of 40,513,944 weekly downloads. As such, read-pkg popularity was classified as an influential project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is read-pkg well maintained?

We found indications that read-pkg is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is read-pkg safe to use?

The npm package read-pkg was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 22 November-2024, at 04:51 (UTC).

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Usage

API

readPackage(options?)

readPackageSync(options?)

options

cwd

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parsePackage(packageFile, options?)

packageFile

options

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