Error when importing package.json in my code

[raulingg]

Whenever I run snowpack dev and import package.json in my code I get this error

// index.jsx
...
import repo from '../package.json'
...

Error

[snowpack] [404] /package.json.proxy.js
  ✘ /home/raulingg/projects/admission/public/package.json
[snowpack] [404] /package.json.proxy.js

does anyone have any idea what is going on?

[FredKSchott]

Only mounted files/folders are included in your website. You can't reach outside of them, because outside of the "public" & "src" directory doesn't exist on the web.

To solve, you'll either want to copy the relevant package.json data into the src/ directory , or do some work in your snowpack config file to load the properties that you want into env (readable via import.meta.env):

// snowpack.config.js
const pkg = require('./package.json');
process.env. SNOWPACK_PUBLIC_PACKAGE_VERSION = pkg.version;

// index.jsx
console.log(import.meta.env.SNOWPACK_PUBLIC_PACKAGE_VERSION);

[FredKSchott]

More about env variables here: https://www.snowpack.dev/#environment-variables