I have a code snippet that I have been using and works. It is used a lot in my application and I need to speed it up. Is there a faster better way of deep accessing objects using a string path. It needs to able to access properties and methods, see my examples below: function get(obj, path) { var paths = path.split('.'), curProp = obj; for(var i=0;i<paths.length;i++){ if (!curProp[paths[i]]) return curProp = (typeof curProp[paths[i]] !== "function") ? curProp[paths[i]] : curProp[paths[i]]() ; } return curProp; } The snippet gets the property via the path for the object passed var obj = {contact:{name:"john"}}; console.log(get(obj, "contact.name")); If the object has a method that returns an object it can return that too var obj = {contact:function(){return {name:"john"}}}; console.log(get(obj, "contact.name"));