--- title: "Wild wild property access" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 433 published_at: "2022-04-14" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/433" --- Plus Node 17.9.0, and Oclif can now build M1 Mac packages. | 🇺🇦 #​433 — April 14, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/433) Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/ifgb1cech6k9hmgoiw92.jpg)](https://github.com/ehmicky/wild-wild-path) 🤠 [Wild Wild Path: Object Property Paths with Wildcards and Regexps](https://github.com/ehmicky/wild-wild-path) — A neat way to access properties in objects (which can be deeply nested) by way of string based queries that support wildcards and regular expressions. You need to [see some examples](https://github.com/ehmicky/wild-wild-path#listtarget-query-options) to really get the idea, but it’s cool (or 'wild', if you will). ehmicky [A Command-Line Argument Parsing API for Node.js Core?](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/42675) — Benjamin Coe [is seeking](https://twitter.com/BenjaminCoe/status/1514236332205293575) community feedback regarding the addition of a minimal command-line argument parser (that goes beyond [the basics](https://nodejs.org/en/knowledge/command-line/how-to-parse-command-line-arguments/)) to Node.js as outlined in the linked pull request. If all goes well, _“there’s a chance it lands early in the lifetime of Node v18,”_ he says. 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