mothership

Helps a module find its package.json mothership.

var mothership = require('mothership')
  , path = require('path');
 
mothership(
    path.join(__dirname, 'uno', 'dos', 'tres')
  , function ismothership (pack) {
      return !!(pack.dependencies && pack.dependencies.unodep);
    }
  , function (err, res) {
      if (err) return console.error(err);
      console.log('first mothership', res.path);  // => [..]/example/uno/package.json
  }
)
 
// Synchronous
var res = mothership.sync(
    path.join(__dirname, 'uno', 'dos', 'tres')
  , function ismothership (pack) {
      return !!(pack.dependencies && pack.dependencies.unodep);
    }
)      
 
console.log('found mothership', res.path);  // => [..]/example/uno/package.json

Installation

npm install mothership

API

mothership(start, ismothership, cb)

Searches upwards from start for package.json files, asking for each if it is the mothership. If a mothership is found it calls back with that. If it reaches the top of the univers it calls back with nothing.

mothership result

• path: full path to the package.json that is the mother ship
• pack: the package.json object, same that was passed to ismothership

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
start	string	full path at which to start looking for the mothership
ismothership	function	invoked with the package object, needs to return true if it is the mothership
cb	function	called back with either an error or full path to package.json that is the mothership

Source:

• index.js , lineno 8

mothership::sync(start, ismothership) → {string}

Synchronous version of mothership.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
start	string	full path at which to start looking for the mothership
ismothership	function	invoked with the package object, needs to return true if it is the mothership

Source:

• index.js , lineno 42

Returns:

full path to package.json that is the mothership or null if it wasn't found

Type

string

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License

MIT