How to avoid 'cannot read property of undefined' errors?

Question

In my code, I deal with an array that has some entries with many objects nested inside one another, where as some do not. It looks something like the following:

Answer 1

Lodash has a get method which allows for a default as an optional third parameter, as show below:

const myObject = {
  has: 'some',
  missing: {
    vars: true
  }
}
const path = 'missing.const.value';
const myValue = _.get(myObject, path, 'default');
console.log(myValue) // prints out default, which is specified above