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[@salesforce/b2c-tooling-sdk](../../../modules.md) / [operations/cap](../index.md) / readManifest

# Function: readManifest()

> **readManifest**(`capDir`): [`CommerceAppManifest`](../interfaces/CommerceAppManifest.md)

Defined in: [packages/b2c-tooling-sdk/src/operations/cap/install.ts:204](https://github.com/SalesforceCommerceCloud/b2c-developer-tooling/blob/9c8c448223735b087738106fca3bc4c8e812ceb7/packages/b2c-tooling-sdk/src/operations/cap/install.ts#L204)

Reads and parses the commerce-app.json manifest file from a CAP directory.

## Parameters

### capDir

`string`

Path to the CAP directory containing commerce-app.json

## Returns

[`CommerceAppManifest`](../interfaces/CommerceAppManifest.md)

Parsed manifest object

## Throws

Error if commerce-app.json does not exist in the directory

## Throws

Error if commerce-app.json is not valid JSON

## Example

```typescript
const manifest = readManifest('./my-commerce-app');
console.log(`App: ${manifest.id}@${manifest.version}`);
```