SMRTR ProgrammingMay 31, 2026Hacker Noon

Converting Nested Objects to Flat Objects in JavaScript: A Quick Guide

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Flattening a nested JavaScript object is a classic interview question that tests your understanding of recursion, object traversal, and a sneaky JavaScript quirk: arrays are objects too. A recursive solution using key prefixes works cleanly, but naive implementations accidentally destructure arrays into indexed keys. Adding an Array.isArray check fixes the edge case and produces correct output.

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