feat: refactor and test tools steps utilities (#42693)

tools/challenge-helper-scripts/helpers/get-project-path-metadata.js

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+const fs = require('fs');
+
+// Process the contents of a argument (json) to an Object
+function getMetaData(file) {
+  let metaData;
+
+  try {
+    metaData = fs.readFileSync(file);
+  } catch (err) {
+    throw `No _meta.json file exists at ${file}`;
+  }
+
+  return JSON.parse(metaData);
+}
+
+exports.getMetaData = getMetaData;