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 an entry point defined in package.json, resulting in them not being resolvable by import.meta.resolve(). Unlike import.meta.resolve(), this package also resolves packages without an entry point and returns undefined instead of throwing when the package can't be found.

Install

npm install resolve-pkg

Usage

import resolvePackage from 'resolve-pkg';

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

resolvePackage('grunt-svgmin/tasks', {cwd: import.meta.dirname});
//=> '/Users/sindresorhus/unicorn/node_modules/grunt-svgmin/tasks'

// Fails here as Grunt tasks usually don't have a defined entry point
import.meta.resolve('grunt-svgmin/tasks');
//=> Error

API

resolvePackage(moduleId, options?)

moduleId

Type: string

What you would use in import.

options

cwd

Type: string
Default: process.cwd()

Directory to resolve from.

Related

• 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