PkgInfo

Returns (async) the nearest package.json file from a module or directory by searching up the directory tree.

PkgInfo uses the node-walkup library do its dir walk up / glob'ing.

Installation

Install with npm

``
npm install pkginfo-async
`

Example

`javascript
var pkgInfo = require("pkginfo-async")

pkgInfo(module, function (err, pkg) {
// err is an error object or null.
// pkg is the contents of the package.json or null
})
`

pkgInfo(start, cb)

* start {String | Object}
* {String} dirname to start looking (upward) from
* {Object} nodejs module object (uses module.filename or module.id) for starting dir
* cb {Function(err, pkg)}
* err {Error | null}
* pkg {Object | null} the contents of package.json. Null if none found.

Perform an asynchronous search for package.json up the dir tree.
* If no file is found, returns null.
* pkg.dirname contains the path to the directory where this package.json` was located.