cli.setApp('package.json') installed globally

[mattimatti]

Hello,
In order to have properly read the package.json, when the cli app is installed globally I have to reference the package.json this way. better solutions appreciated.

var path = require('path');
var cli = require('cli');

var theFolder = path.dirname(require.main.filename);
var theFile = path.resolve(theFolder + '/../package.json');

cli.setApp(theFile);

Ciao
:m

[Toddses]

One way is

cli.setApp(__dirname+'/../package.json');

That said, that's only better in that it’s a one-liner.

This actually is also true if cli is installed as a local package. The documentation seems to imply that the default behavior of appname --version would return the appname's version. But in fact you get cli's version, not your appname. You end up explicitly defining the app's package as above.

@chriso Is this intended behavior? If so, an update to the docs to make this a little clearer would be useful.

[jollycic]

+1