resolve-pkg

Resolve the path of a package regardless of it having an entry point

Some packages like CLI tools and grunt tasks don't have a entry point, like "main": "foo.js" in package.json, resulting in them not being resolvable by require.resolve(). Unlike require.resolve(), this module also resolves packages without an entry point, returns undefined instead of throwing when the module can't be found, and resolves from process.cwd() instead __dirname by default.

Install

$ npm install resolve-pkg

Usage

const resolvePkg = require('resolve-pkg');

// $ npm install --save-dev grunt-svgmin

resolvePkg('grunt-svgmin/tasks', {cwd: __dirname});
//=> '/Users/sindresorhus/unicorn/node_modules/grunt-svgmin/tasks'

// Fails here as Grunt tasks usually don't have a defined main entry point
require.resolve('grunt-svgmin/tasks');
//=> Error: Cannot find module 'grunt-svgmin'

API

resolvePkg(moduleId, [options])

moduleId

Type: string

What you would use in require().

options

cwd

Type: string
Default: process.cwd()

Directory to resolve from.

resolve-cwd - Resolve the path of a module from the current working directory
resolve-from - Resolve the path of a module from a given path
resolve-global - Resolve the path of a globally installed module
import-from - Import a module from a given path
import-cwd - Import a module from the current working directory
import-lazy - Import a module lazily

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