diff --git a/nodejs/native/Cargo.toml b/nodejs/native/Cargo.toml
index f74dd27..74fd4b6 100644
--- a/nodejs/native/Cargo.toml
+++ b/nodejs/native/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "jsonpath4nodejs"
-version = "0.2.2"
+version = "0.2.3"
 authors = ["Changseok Han <freestrings@gmail.com>"]
 description = "jsonpath_lib bindings for nodejs"
 keywords = ["library", "jsonpath", "json", "nodejs"]
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ neon-build = "0.2.0"
 jsonpath_lib = "0.2.2"
 #jsonpath_lib = { path = "../../" }
 neon = "0.2.0"
-neon-serde = "0.1.1"
 serde_json = { version = "1.0", features = ["preserve_order"] }
 
 [lib]
diff --git a/nodejs/native/src/lib.rs b/nodejs/native/src/lib.rs
index 7a5eed5..7e36356 100644
--- a/nodejs/native/src/lib.rs
+++ b/nodejs/native/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,27 +1,12 @@
 extern crate jsonpath_lib as jsonpath;
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate neon;
-extern crate neon_serde;
 extern crate serde_json;
 
 use jsonpath::{JsonPathError, Node, Parser, Selector};
 use neon::prelude::*;
 use serde_json::Value;
 
-///
-/// `neon_serde::from_value` has very poor performance.
-///
-fn select(mut ctx: FunctionContext) -> JsResult<JsValue> {
-    let json_val = ctx.argument::<JsValue>(0)?;
-    let json: Value = neon_serde::from_value(&mut ctx, json_val)?;
-    let path = ctx.argument::<JsString>(1)?.value();
-
-    match jsonpath::select(&json, path.as_str()) {
-        Ok(value) => Ok(neon_serde::to_value(&mut ctx, &value)?),
-        Err(e) => panic!("{:?}", e),
-    }
-}
-
 fn select_str(mut ctx: FunctionContext) -> JsResult<JsValue> {
     let json_val = ctx.argument::<JsString>(0)?.value();
     let path = ctx.argument::<JsString>(1)?.value();
@@ -276,7 +261,6 @@ register_module!(mut m, {
         .expect("Selector class error");
     m.export_class::<JsSelectorMut>("SelectorMut")
         .expect("SelectorMut class error");
-    m.export_function("select", select)?;
     m.export_function("deleteValue", delete)?;
     m.export_function("replaceWith", replace_with)?;
     m.export_function("selectStr", select_str)?;
diff --git a/nodejs/package-lock.json b/nodejs/package-lock.json
index 0a4a804..143a7c3 100644
--- a/nodejs/package-lock.json
+++ b/nodejs/package-lock.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "jsonpath-rs",
-  "version": "0.2.2",
+  "version": "0.2.3",
   "lockfileVersion": 1,
   "requires": true,
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/nodejs/package.json b/nodejs/package.json
index d5874a4..0132f60 100644
--- a/nodejs/package.json
+++ b/nodejs/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "jsonpath-rs",
-  "version": "0.2.2",
+  "version": "0.2.3",
   "description": "It is JsonPath implementation. The core implementation is written in Rust",
   "author": "Changseok Han <freestrings@gmail.com>",
   "license": "MIT",