project-bin-path

project-bin-path

Find path to local bin of Node.js or NPM package

Inspired by sindresorhus/pkg-dir

Install:

npm install project-bin-path

or

yarn add project-bin-path

Usage:

Project structure

📁 Users/
  📁 ajaynarainmathur/
      📁 test-project/
          📁 node_modules/
              📁 .bin/
          📃 package.json
              📁 dist/
                  📃 foo.js

// foo.js
const projectBinPath = require('project-bin-path')
 
projectBinPath(__dirname).then(binPath => {
    console.log(binPath);
    // `/Users/ajaynarainmathur/test-project/node_modules/.bin`
});

Api

projectBinPath([cwd])

⮑ Returns a promise of path to .bin folder of the project or null if project is not found

projectBinPath.sync([cwd])

⮑ Returns the path to .bin of the project or null.

cwd

⮑ Directory to start from.

Type: string
Default: process.cwd()

Use Cases

1. When you need to get path to excutables in package ( not the project but of your local package ) just do projectBinPath(__dirname) => [...]/project/node_modules/your_package/node_modules/.bin

2. When you need to get path to excutables in project ( project using you package* ) just do projectBinPath() => [...]/project/node_modules/.bin

License

MIT 🍻 Ajay Narain Mathur