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read-package-json is a module used by npm to read and validate package. json files, applying defaults and caching results to avoid redundant reads. It is useful for developers who want to understand how npm interprets their package.
- lurq health score
- 48/100
- Confidence
- unproven
- Weekly downloads
- 3,012,602
- Latest version
- 7.0.1
- Last release
- May 4, 2024
- License
- ISC
Should you depend on read-package-json?
lurq's verdict: medium
- Deprecated on npm
- Repository archived
- No known advisories
- the publisher has marked this package deprecated
- the source repository is archived
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- 6.0.4 → 7.0.1being extracted
- 5.0.2 → 6.0.4being extracted
- 4.1.2 → 5.0.2being extracted
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