bistro — lightning-fast _.get alternative

Bistro safely extracts deeply nested object properties. Works 7 times as fast as Lodash get, dwarfs fast-get and object-path.

Under the hood, bistro compiles array paths into good old object && object.prop && object.prop.prop2... checks, making your code both concise and efficient. Lodash.get is fast enough, but why waste CPU cycles on property access? bistro is safe to use in performance-critical applications, like data analysis and visualization.

Usage

// Load the full module
const bistro = require('bistro');
// Or use component-based imports
const bistroGet = require('bistro/lib/get');
// Or use the ES6 syntax
import bistro from bistro;

// Compile the getter - do it once, or the magic is gone!
const getUsername = bistro.get(['user', 'name']);

// securely access
getUsername(undefined) // => undefined
getUsername({}) // => undefined
getUsername({ user: 'Ivan' }) // => undefined
getUsername({ user: { name: 'Ivan' } }) // => "Ivan"

// Or provide a default value
getUsername({}, 'anonymous') // => "anonymous"

Install using npm

$ npm i --save bistro

Benchmarks

The chart summarizes the performance of successful property access by array path at various depths. In all implementations misses are slightly slower. String paths (user.name) require parsing and memory allocation, with disastrous performance effect.

• Default bistro.get implementation is the fat orange line.
• lodash.get is red.
• The other bistro-* lines are alternative implementations not included in the bundle, for me to watch out for changes.
• fast-get and object-path are there in the bottom.

Made by Vladimir Klepov.