Read a package.json field across workspaces with npm pkg get --ws

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Documented steps

  1. cd into the monorepo root
  2. Read the same field from every workspace: npm pkg get version --ws
  3. Read from just a subset: npm pkg get version --workspace=a
  4. The output is a JSON object whose top-level keys are the workspace names, each containing the field value
  5. Pipe the JSON to jq for scripting across workspaces

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