Way to extract metadata from package.json of dependency

[bcoe]

It would be nice to have a way to pull in metadata from package.json in the context of a library, e.g., what is my version #?

[ljharb]

That would require https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/49445.

[ruyadorno]

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/49445 might very well be exactly what @bcoe was talking about!