Is there an npm cli option get package name from local package.json?

NPM has environment variables that it stores. You can see these by typing npm run env in the console.

You can use this to get the variable you need by grepping for npm_package_name but that leaves you with "npm_package_name=your_package_name".

One way to get around it would be to get the substring after the "=" character with the command:

cut -d "=" -f 2 <<< $(npm run env | grep "npm_package_name")

This command leaves you with the package name.

EDIT:
Another way to do this is by adding a script in your package.json that is simply echo $npm_package_name then run that script in your shell command.

Your package.json would look something like this:

{
  "name": "your_package_name",
  "scripts": {
      "getName": "echo $npm_package_name"
  }
}

Then type npm run getName -s

If you decide to go with your initial idea of using the node command, you could make it a bit cleaner by using the -p argument, which is shorthand for --print:

node -p "require('./package.json').name"

or with error handling

node -p "try { require('./package.json').name } catch(e) {}"