The answer above actually gets the type union of all non-array elements of a multi-level array.

In other words

    Flatten<[1,[2,'a',['b']]]>

will give you a union type of 1, 2, 'a', and 'b'

    const foo: Flatten<[1,[2,'a',['b']]]> = 'b'; // OK
    const bar: Flatten<[1,[2,'a',['b']]]> = 'c'; // Error: Type '"c"' is not assignable to type '1 | 2 | "a" | "b"'

Technically the inference is unnecessary there, if that's you're goal:

     type Flatten<T> = T extends Array<unknown> ? Flatten<T[number]> : T

I don't really consider this the type of flattening an array, but `Array<Flatten<ArrType>>` would be. And this would actually be comparable to the builtin Array.prototype.flat type signature with infinite depth (you can see the typedef for that here[1], but this is the highest level of typescript sorcery)

My solution was for flattening an array with a depth of 1 (most people using Array.prototype.flat are using this default depth I'd wager):

    console.log(JSON.stringify([1,[2, [3]]].flat()));
    > [1,2,[3]]

The type I provided would match those semantics:

    // 'readonly' added to the 'extends' sections to work on "as const" (readonly) arrays
    type FlatArr<Arg extends unknown[] | readonly unknown[]> = Arg extends readonly [infer First, ...(infer Rest)] ?
      First extends readonly unknown[] ?
        [...First, ...FlatArr<Rest>] :
        [First, ...FlatArr<Rest>] :
      [];

    const flatten = <Arr extends unknown[] | readonly unknown[]>(arr: Arr): FlatArr<Arr> => arr.flat() as FlatArr<Arr>
    const someArr = [1,[2,'a',['b', ['c']]]] as const; // const someArr: readonly [1, readonly [2, "a", readonly ["b", readonly ["c"]]]]
    const someArr2 = flatten(someArr);                 // const someArr2: [1, 2, "a", readonly ["b", readonly ["c"]]]

    

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/main/src/lib/es...