How to find a node in the whole scene?

Cocos Creator
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How do i search for a node that is present in the game scene?
in Unity we can use GameObject.find("object name"); there is one in cocos creator cc.find(path); but in my case i dont know where path is… so my node might be in the root scene or the node might be inside of another node

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Straight forward approach would be to manually search the scene, something like this:

var findDeep = function(node, nodeName) {
	if(node.name == nodeName) return node;
	for(var i = 0; i < node.children.length; i++) {
		var res = findDeep(node.children[i], nodeName);
		if(res) return res;
	}
}
findDeep( cc.director.getScene(), "nodeName" );

But it may be too slow to do it in runtime on bigger scenes, so you better simply know your node’s path. Probably there’s a better way, but I can’t seem to find any

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