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# read-pkg [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/read-pkg.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/read-pkg)
> Read a package.json file
## Why
- [Gracefully handles filesystem issues ](https://github.com/isaacs/node-graceful-fs )
- [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 )
## Install
```
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$ npm install read-pkg
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```
## Usage
```js
const readPkg = require('read-pkg');
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(async () => {
console.log(await readPkg());
//=> {name: 'read-pkg', …}
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console.log(await readPkg({cwd: 'some-other-directory'}));
//=> {name: 'unicorn', …}
})();
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```
## API
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### readPkg(options?)
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Returns a `Promise<object>` with the parsed JSON.
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### readPkg.sync(options?)
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Returns the parsed JSON.
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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()`
Current working directory.
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##### normalize
Type: `boolean` < br >
Default: `true`
[Normalize ](https://github.com/npm/normalize-package-data#what-normalization-currently-entails ) the package data.
## Related
- [read-pkg-up ](https://github.com/sindresorhus/read-pkg-up ) - Read the closest package.json file
- [write-pkg ](https://github.com/sindresorhus/write-pkg ) - Write a `package.json` file
- [load-json-file ](https://github.com/sindresorhus/load-json-file ) - Read and parse a JSON file
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