# arr-flatten [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/arr-flatten) [](https://npmjs.org/package/arr-flatten) [](https://npmjs.org/package/arr-flatten) [](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/arr-flatten) [](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/jonschlinkert/arr-flatten) > Recursively flatten an array or arrays. ## Install Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/): ```sh $ npm install --save arr-flatten ``` ## Install Install with [bower](https://bower.io/) ```sh $ bower install arr-flatten --save ``` ## Usage ```js var flatten = require('arr-flatten'); flatten(['a', ['b', ['c']], 'd', ['e']]); //=> ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'] ``` ## Why another flatten utility? I wanted the fastest implementation I could find, with implementation choices that should work for 95% of use cases, but no cruft to cover the other 5%. ## About ### Related projects * [arr-filter](https://www.npmjs.com/package/arr-filter): Faster alternative to javascript's native filter method. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/arr-filter "Faster alternative to javascript's native filter method.") * [arr-union](https://www.npmjs.com/package/arr-union): Combines a list of arrays, returning a single array with unique values, using strict equality… [more](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/arr-union) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/arr-union "Combines a list of arrays, returning a single array with unique values, using strict equality for comparisons.") * [array-each](https://www.npmjs.com/package/array-each): Loop over each item in an array and call the given function on every element. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/array-each "Loop over each item in an array and call the given function on every element.") * [array-unique](https://www.npmjs.com/package/array-unique): Remove duplicate values from an array. Fastest ES5 implementation. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/array-unique "Remove duplicate values from an array. Fastest ES5 implementation.") ### Contributing Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](../../issues/new). ### Contributors | **Commits** | **Contributor** | | --- | --- | | 20 | [jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) | | 1 | [lukeed](https://github.com/lukeed) | ### Building docs _(This project's readme.md is generated by [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the [.verb.md](.verb.md) readme template.)_ To generate the readme, run the following command: ```sh $ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb ``` ### Running tests Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command: ```sh $ npm install && npm test ``` ### Author **Jon Schlinkert** * [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) * [twitter/jonschlinkert](https://twitter.com/jonschlinkert) ### License Copyright © 2017, [Jon Schlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert). Released under the [MIT License](LICENSE). *** _This file was generated by [verb-generate-readme](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme), v0.6.0, on July 05, 2017._