Bug Report

🔎 Search Terms

• Array.flat
• Type instantiation is excessively deep and possibly infinite.
• Nested arrays

🕗 Version & Regression Information

• This changed between versions 4.6 and 4.7

⏯ Playground Link

TypeScript Workbench with relevant code

💻 Code

interface Config {
  prop?: string;
}

interface ExtendedConfig extends Config {}

type NestedConfigs = Array<ExtendedConfig | NestedConfigs>;

const configs: NestedConfigs[] = [];

const flattened = configs.flat(Infinity);

🙁 Actual behavior

TypeScript raises the following error for the configs.flat(Infinity) call:

Type instantiation is excessively deep and possibly infinite. ts(2589)

🙂 Expected behavior

No error should be raised.