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Vesa Piittinen • • Edited

The good old super compatible way to do it:

function flatten(array) {
    // only mutate what you own, thus create a new copy
    array = array.slice(0);
    for (i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
        // Array.isArray(array[i])
        if (Object.prototype.toString.call(array[i]) === '[object Array]') {
            // replaces single item with all items from the array
            Array.prototype.splice.apply(array, [i, 1].concat(array[i--]));
        }
    }
    return array;
}
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This should work with pretty much any JavaScript engine released within last 20 years, and does it without recursion.

But as others are saying you should just use .flat() these days instead of reinventing the wheel.

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Rohit Kumawat • • Edited

Thanks for reading the article and for this solution 🙌. Really appreciate it.
But yeah I covered this solution because it covers recursion as well.