I think that's just a "resolveJsonModule": true in your ts config

i have that at the last line in my ts, as shown in the question/message

sorry I missed it, I wonder if you also need then "include": ["./**/*.ts", "./**/*.json"]

You can probably use

fs

as well for this; however, I would recommend using Pulumi configs. That being said, I don't know what you're needing. 🙂