Need Help On Flattening an Multidimensional Array in js

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> Please someone explain me how this snippet is actually work ?


var arr = [1, 2, [3, 4, [5, 6]]];

// to enable deep level flatten use recursion with reduce and concat
function flatDeep(arr, d = 1) {
   return d > 0 ? arr.reduce((acc, val) => acc.concat(Array.isArray(val) ? flatDeep(val, d - 1) : val), [])
                : arr.slice();
};

flatDeep(arr, Infinity);
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what is it that you don’t understand? the use of recursion? the ternary operator?
what parts?

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This looks like a solution from the guide, and it was written more to be clever than useful. Of course as usefulness goes, flattening a deeply-nested array with arbitrary elements is a problem you’ll never see in real life. If you’re not already familiar with how .reduce() works, you may want to experiment with it for a while; it’s pretty hard to explain it in the context of an obfuscated answer.

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