This is how I recommend you learn Recursion in Javascript

Teaching how to learn recursion and explaining a couple of examples.
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[@jjfattz]

I love that you used the debugger. It’s such a powerful yet typically underutilized tool that we have at our disposal.

[@Steel0079]

console.log(debugger)

[@twentyhate]

I just want to thank you for your videos that I watch from time to time. I'm kind of "specialized" in Laravel but I like the fact that you explain very well, and that it can apply to any language.

[@MrZeroowner]

Hey, man. That was awesome. I loved how simple and yet how deeply this video was.

[@chenph6904]

First attempt to learn resursion. Your exaplanation is clean and clear. It must be helping a lot for a deeper study of recusion!

[@Kay8B]

Can I please request you use dark mode on Excalidraw, the contrast from your editor to the excalidraw hurt my eyes lol

[@petermckeever2360]

Nice work, Cody. Tree structure definitely a good way to explain

[@ubitubee]

Thanks a lot, it's starting to make sense now. It's actually just a loop written differently when you think about it

[@Sijo2]

Thank you for your examples and explanations

[@k3tna]

Great explanation, especially if you knew it but need a refresher

[@CottidaeSEA]

I rarely find recursion useful outside of traversing trees, in which case it's a great approach. Loop through objects, if it has children (or a parent if traversing in that direction) then you just keep traversing until you find what you want, or until you achieve the desired result.
I also use recursion for some maze algorithms I made, but those aren't too dissimilar to trees. It's a node based system at the very least, where each node has siblings.

[@KyselPoints]

I was unable to see contents of stack in chrome browser, can you help?

[@CottidaeSEA]

@@KyselPoints You'll probably find a good answer on StackOverflow, but sure, I might be able to help. What is it that you need to do? If you're talking about the call stack, if you press F12 and click the "Sources" tab you'll see it if you use debugger.

[@ikai2]

Great video, please do more Vanilla Javascript videos. you're a great teacher.

[@MohammadAbrar-tx3fc]

This really helped me learn

[@stephanykleen2075]

any way you could do a video with that last permutation exercise? that's exactly what I am looking to learn.

[@dws98]

finally, I understand it. thank you bro XD

[@lakshmitech4702]

Your channel is 💎 to me.

[@michaelharrington5860]

Tower of Hanoi is the real ball buster

[@Ptbcpr]

im still a little bit confused. how does the function know to add all of the results of the recursive function up to create the result when its not state in the function at any point ?

[@aryaprima6626]

Good Tutorial

[@SeibertSwirl]

Good job love ❤️

[@WebDevCody]

Thanks babe!

[@Nil-js4bf]

I've been doing a few challenges from the "type-challenges" repo on github every day (treating it like a daily wordle puzzle) and it's forced me to get comfortable at recursion. That said, the lack of ability to debug a typescript function isn't great for learning. Also the challenges on that repo could be arranged in a better order. Some of its early stuff isn't exactly "easy" and some require really weird tricks which are nice to learn but can result in you wasting a lot of time if you try to do it yourself without looking at the solution.

[@FrostTyler]

I understand the concept of recursion perfectly, but I have no idea how to implement it. It's so mindbending trying to figure out what each step is accomplishing in the recursive body, and it just makes me want to rip my hair out.

[@KyselPoints]

I was unable to see contents of call stack in chrome browser, can you help? I followed your steps, still it did not work.

[@WebDevCody]

It should be there if you have a debugger stopped in a function somewhwre

[@MrEnsiferum77]

Or u can use reduce function and using it as tail recursion.

[@bartoszwierzbicki5994]

i get why fib 2 + fib 1 is fib 3, but i don't get why fib 3 + fib 2 is fib 4 :P. Can some one explain me this little detail?

[@sontredis2579]

I believe it’s asking for the answers of fib(3) and fib(2) and adding them together to get fib(4) which is 3. Fib(2) and fib(3) is 2+1

[@Segev031]

The first element in Fibonacci series is 0!!!
Great tutorial tho

[@mouhamaddiop1144]

Vous aviez raison de dire que le factoriel peut être un cas d'utilisation de la récursivité.

[@kenosabi]

I feel like this took a confusing topic and somehow managed to make it more confusing.

[@WebDevCody]

Sorry

[@Afreshio]

it was amazing until the fibonacci example where it felt a bit convoluted and it was kinda complicated to follow the callback stack and the explanation. just my $0.02

[@WebDevCody]

I’ll try better next time

[@KyselPoints]

I too did not understand the call stack thing. It simply did not work in my chrome browser. Can you help?

[@zaklettrezvenik]

if this guy actually spends time to organize his explanations, he would be the best, no doubt! thanks, but in many points of the vid, you literally distracted me by making some mistakes, that were just caused by the fact that you explain on LIVE, or idk. but yeah, take that into consideration :) thank uuu for the explanations tho !!