pnpm pkg

Added in: v11.3.0

Manages the contents of package.json from the command line.

pnpm pkg get [<key> [<key> ...]]
pnpm pkg set <key>=<value> [<key>=<value> ...]
pnpm pkg delete <key> [<key> ...]
pnpm pkg fix

Nested fields are addressed with dot-separated paths (e.g. scripts.test, repository.url).

Commands

get

Retrieves a value from package.json. With no arguments, prints the full manifest. With one or more keys, prints the requested fields.

pnpm pkg get name
pnpm pkg get name version
pnpm pkg get scripts.test

When only one key is requested and it resolves to a string, the raw value is printed; otherwise the value is JSON-encoded. Pass --json to always print JSON.

set

Sets one or more values in package.json. Each argument has the key=value form.

pnpm pkg set name=my-package
pnpm pkg set scripts.build="tsc -p ."
pnpm pkg set 'keywords[0]'=cli

By default the value is stored as a string. Pass --json to parse the value as JSON before storing it (useful for booleans, numbers, arrays, and objects):

pnpm pkg set private=true --json
pnpm pkg set 'engines={"node":">=22"}' --json

delete

Removes one or more keys from package.json.

pnpm pkg delete scripts.test
pnpm pkg delete keywords

fix

Auto-corrects common errors in package.json (e.g. removes a non-string name or version, drops dependency / scripts blocks whose values aren't objects, drops a bin field that's neither a string nor an object).

pnpm pkg fix

옵션

--json

When setting, parses each value as JSON before writing. When getting a single key, returns the JSON-encoded form instead of the raw value.

--recursive, -r

Runs the subcommand on every workspace project, or on every project selected by a --filter.

pnpm -r pkg get name
pnpm -r pkg set version=1.0.0
pnpm --filter "./packages/*" pkg get name

pnpm -r pkg get returns a JSON object keyed by package name; set, delete, and fix apply to each matched project.