propget

propget

Propget is a small helper utility for finding values/keys in deeply nested objects without having to worry about undefined properties and what not. It uses a human readable dot based notation to find items in your object or array.

Installation

Just install it through npm, like you do with the all your code:

npm install --save propget

It doesn't use any fancy node.js magic or ES6 so it should be good to go for browser usage as well using something as browserify.

Usage

Using this module is super simple. It exports a single function which accepts 2 arguments;

1. The object that it needs to extract the data from
2. A dot notated string for deeply nested object access.

'use strict';

var prop = require('propget')
  , data = { hello: 'world', yo: { deeply: ['nested', 'arrays'] } };

prop(data, 'hello'); // world
prop(data, 'yo.deeply.1'); // arrays
prop(data, 'yo.deeply.nested.unknown.keys'); // undefined

License

MIT