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Replies for: When do people find themselves using/needing .flat()? I don't think I've ever run into a scenarios where I have nested arrays that I need flattened...

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Yaser Adel Mehraban •

A couple of common use cases are:

  1. Image data manipulation
  2. Machine learning data prep
  3. Working 2D or 3D shapes
  4. Searching for an element in a nested array without multiple loops
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Schaan Alq. • • Edited

Exactly. I see it is like a preparation for js getting into the two hot topics:

  1. data science;
  2. VR (computational geometry)