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read-metadata
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Load a JSON or YAML metadata file and return it as an object.
npm install read-metadata
It handles both JSON and YAML and will return a parsed object.
var read = require('read-metadata');
read('path/to/metadata.json', function(err, data){
console.log(data);
});
Takes a path to the metadata file. The callback will be called with fn(err, result)
.
Load a metafile syncronously.
FAQs
Load a JSON or YAML metadata file as an object
The npm package read-metadata receives a total of 11,320 weekly downloads. As such, read-metadata popularity was classified as popular.
We found that read-metadata demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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