Understanding Recursion in JavaScript — Explained in Simple Words

If you are learning DSA, recursion can feel scary at first. When I started learning it, I also felt like: “Why is a function calling itself?” “How do I know when it will stop?” “Why does this look so confusing?” But the truth is: Recursion is not hard because of the logic. It feels hard because we try to understand everything at once. So in this post, let’s not do that. Let’s understand recursion in very simple words , step by step , using JavaScript . What is recursion? Recursion means: a funct