Is there a Node API for the npm cli tools?

For example, if I want to do something like npm ls --json <package> in a Node program, do I need to use exec or is there a native node API I can use for this?

Ideal:

import { ls } from 'npm';

let dependencies = await ls('lodash');

non-ideal:

const util = require('node:util');
const exec = util.promisify(require('node:child_process').exec);

let dependencies = JSON.parse((await exec('npm ls --json lodash')).stdout)

Is there a Node API for the npm cli tools?

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