require-dot-file
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npm install require-dot-file
This is a simple module used for recursively searching across all parent folders for a file to require.
For example you may want to allow a user to include a dotfile to allow users to configure your project that they can include in their project root.
var
requireDotFile = require('require-dot-file')
;
// searches for .myconfig in all parent dir recursively (including current dir)
var config = requireDotFile('.myconfig');
// searches for .myconfig file in /path/to/start and its parent dirs
var config = requireDotFile('.myconfig', '/path/to/start');
FAQs
Recursively walks parent folders looking for a config file
The npm package require-dot-file receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, require-dot-file popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that require-dot-file demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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