I'm writing a cli package and for showing the version I'm importing version from package.json.

When I do that, after running tsc the dist folder looks like that:

/dist
--/package.json
--/README.md
--/src
----files
----...

the package.json has the following property:

  "files": [
    "dist/**/*"
  ],

I use npm pack to see what will be part of the tarball. when I try to pack it, only 3 files are packed:

npm notice 1.9kB dist/package.json
npm notice 1.7kB package.json     
npm notice 1.2kB README.md    

but If I don't import the version from package.json, it is no longer in the dist directory and all the content in dist gets packed properly.

As a temporary measure I'm reading package.json with fs, but that's far an elegant solution. Is there a way to solve this issue?