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snyk-try-require
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This package tries to load and parse a package.json
file. This does not load the package into memory (as per require
).
What snyk-try-require does:
package.json
can't be found, but fulfills with null
debug
module under the snyk:resolve:try-require
keydependencies
and devDependencies
if they're missing__filename
containing the full original path to the packagesnyk
propertynpm-shrinkwrap.json
will include a shrinkwrap
boolean propertyleading
and trailing
whitespace of the original package.json
file as a leading
and trailing
property respectivelyFAQs
Snyk package loading system with policy detection
The npm package snyk-try-require receives a total of 64,763 weekly downloads. As such, snyk-try-require popularity was classified as popular.
We found that snyk-try-require 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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