resolve-bin

Resolves the full path to the bin file of a given package by inspecting the "bin" field in its package.json.

var resolveBin = require('resolve-bin');

// package.json: "bin": "bin/tap.js"
resolveBin('tap', function (err, bin) {
  if (err) return console.error(err);
  console.log(bin);  
});

// => [..]/resolve-bin/node_modules/tap/bin/tap.js

Installation

npm install resolve-bin

API

resolveBin(name, opts, cb)

Resolves the full path to the bin file of a given package by inspecting the "bin" field in its package.json.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Argument	Description
name	string		module name, i.e. 'tap'
opts	Object	<optional>	options Properties Name Type Description executable string (default: @name) executable name (e.g. 'buster-test')
cb	function		called back with the full path to the bin file of the module or an error if it couldn't be resolved

Source:

• index.js , lineno 6

resolveBin::sync(name, opts) → {string}

Synchronous version of resolveBin

Parameters:

Name	Type	Argument	Description
name	string		module name, i.e. 'tap'
opts	Object	<optional>	options Properties Name Type Description executable string (default: @name) executable name (e.g. 'buster-test')

Source:

• index.js , lineno 55

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License

MIT