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It's for tooling. Many tools would read the package.json of an installed package to learn about additional information about it, for example bundler would read for the sideEffect field, and some other tools read about its dependency tree, author info, etc.
In CJS, <pkg>/package.json is resolved automatically to the ./package.json. That's not the case for ESM. So it is very common that library add this to restore this capability when moving from CJS to ESM.
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This fix importing package.json for tooling.
✅ Pull Request Checklist:
📝 Test Instructions:
run script to read package.json such as:
Without this fix, you will get the following error: