How to get the value at given path of an object in JavaScript

In this Article we will go through how to get the value at given path of an object only using single line of code in JavaScript. This is a one-line JavaScript code snippet that uses one of the most popular ES6 features => Arrow Function.

Let's define this short function:

const getValue = (path, obj) => path.split('.').reduce((acc, c) => acc && acc[c], obj);

#Example

getValue('a.b', { a: { b: 'Hello World' } });   // 'Hello World';