diff --git a/docs/src/pages/components/TreeView.svx b/docs/src/pages/components/TreeView.svx
index c7c97c92..e95b7828 100644
--- a/docs/src/pages/components/TreeView.svx
+++ b/docs/src/pages/components/TreeView.svx
@@ -58,12 +58,21 @@ To render a node with an icon, define an `icon` property with a Carbon Svelte ic
 
 <FileSource src="/framed/TreeView/TreeViewIcons" />
 
+## Flat data structure
+
+Provide a flat data structure through the `nodesFlat` property. Child object needs to have a `pid` property 
+to reference its parent. Optionally the key for the parent can be provided. 
+When no parent id is available the object is assumed to be at the root of the tree. 
+
+<FileSource src="/framed/TreeView/TreeViewFlatArray" />
+
 ## Initial expanded nodes
 
 Expanded nodes can be set using `expandedIds`.
 
 <FileSource src="/framed/TreeView/TreeViewExpanded" />
 
+
 ## Initial multiple selected nodes
 
 Initial multiple selected nodes can be set using `selectedIds`.
diff --git a/docs/src/pages/framed/TreeView/TreeViewFlatArray.svelte b/docs/src/pages/framed/TreeView/TreeViewFlatArray.svelte
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a508b092
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/src/pages/framed/TreeView/TreeViewFlatArray.svelte
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+<script>
+  import { TreeView } from "carbon-components-svelte";
+  import WatsonMachineLearning from "carbon-icons-svelte/lib/WatsonMachineLearning.svelte";
+  import Analytics from "carbon-icons-svelte/lib/Analytics.svelte";
+  import Blockchain from "carbon-icons-svelte/lib/Blockchain.svelte";
+  import DataBase from "carbon-icons-svelte/lib/DataBase.svelte";
+  import SignalStrength from "carbon-icons-svelte/lib/SignalStrength.svelte";
+
+  let activeId = "";
+  let selectedIds = [];
+  let nodesFlat = [
+    { id: 0, text: "AI / Machine learning", icon: WatsonMachineLearning },
+    { id: 1, text: "Analytics", icon: Analytics },
+    { id: 2, text: "IBM Analytics Engine", pid: 1, icon: Analytics },
+    { id: 3, text: "Apache Spark", pid: 2, icon: Analytics },
+    { id: 4, text: "Hadoop", icon: Analytics, pid: 2 },
+    { id: 5, text: "IBM Cloud SQL Query", icon: Analytics, pid: 1 },
+    { id: 6, text: "IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud", icon: Analytics, pid: 1 },
+    { id: 7, text: "Blockchain", icon: Blockchain },
+    { id: 8, text: "IBM Blockchain Platform", icon: Blockchain, pid: 7 },
+    { id: 9, text: "Databases", icon: DataBase },
+    {
+      id: 10,
+      text: "IBM Cloud Databases for Elasticsearch",
+      icon: DataBase,
+      pid: 9,
+    },
+    {
+      id: 11,
+      text: "IBM Cloud Databases for Enterprise DB",
+      icon: DataBase,
+      pid: 9,
+    },
+    { id: 12, text: "IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB", icon: DataBase, pid: 9 },
+    {
+      id: 13,
+      text: "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL",
+      icon: DataBase,
+      pid: 9,
+    },
+    { id: 14, text: "Integration", icon: SignalStrength, disabled: true },
+    {
+      id: 15,
+      text: "IBM API Connect",
+      icon: SignalStrength,
+      disabled: true,
+      pid: 14,
+    },
+  ];
+</script>
+
+<TreeView
+  labelText="Cloud Products"
+  {nodesFlat}
+  bind:activeId
+  bind:selectedIds
+  on:select={({ detail }) => console.log("select", detail)}
+  on:toggle={({ detail }) => console.log("toggle", detail)}
+  on:focus={({ detail }) => console.log("focus", detail)}
+/>
+
+<div>Active node id: {activeId}</div>
+<div>Selected ids: {JSON.stringify(selectedIds)}</div>
+
+<style>
+  div {
+    margin-top: var(--cds-spacing-05);
+  }
+</style>
diff --git a/src/TreeView/TreeView.svelte b/src/TreeView/TreeView.svelte
index 31e3f267..e32e3c53 100644
--- a/src/TreeView/TreeView.svelte
+++ b/src/TreeView/TreeView.svelte
@@ -37,11 +37,17 @@
    */
 
   /**
-   * Provide an array of nodes to render
+   * Provide a nested array of nodes to render
    * @type {Array<TreeNode>}
    */
   export let nodes = [];
 
+  /**
+   * Provide a flat array of nodes to render
+   * @type {Array<TreeNode>[]}
+   */
+  export let nodesFlat = [];
+
   /**
    * Set the current active node id
    * Only one node can be active
@@ -195,6 +201,48 @@
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Create a nested array from a flat array
+   * TODO: accept a parent key
+   * @type {(flatArray: TreeNode[] & { pid: any }[]) => TreeNode[]}
+   */
+  function createNestedArray(flatArray) {
+    /** @type TreeNode[] */
+    const tree = [];
+    /** @type TreeNode[] */
+    const childrenOf = [];
+
+    flatArray.forEach((dstItem) => {
+      const { id, pid } = dstItem;
+      childrenOf[id] = childrenOf[id] || [];
+      dstItem["nodes"] = childrenOf[id];
+
+      if (pid) {
+        // objects without pid are root level objects.
+        childrenOf[pid] = childrenOf[pid] || [];
+        delete dstItem.pid; // TreeNode type doesn't have pid.
+        childrenOf[pid].push(dstItem);
+      } else {
+        delete dstItem.pid;
+        tree.push(dstItem);
+      }
+    });
+
+    // Remove the empty nodes props that make TreeView render a twistie.
+    // Maybe this should actually be taken care of in TreeView itself? It makes
+    // no sense i think that an empty nodes property render a twistie.
+    function removeEmptyNodes(element) {
+      element.forEach((elmt) => {
+        if (elmt.nodes?.length === 0) delete elmt.nodes;
+        else {
+          removeEmptyNodes(elmt.nodes);
+        }
+      });
+    }
+    removeEmptyNodes(tree);
+    return tree;
+  }
+
   onMount(() => {
     const firstFocusableNode = ref.querySelector(
       "li.bx--tree-node:not(.bx--tree-node--disabled)",
@@ -220,6 +268,7 @@
     }, []);
   }
 
+  $: nodes = createNestedArray(nodesFlat);
   $: flattenedNodes = traverse(nodes);
   $: nodeIds = flattenedNodes.map((node) => node.id);
   $: activeNodeId.set(activeId);