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Recursion is the repeated application of a process. In JavaScript, recursion involves functions that call themselves repeatedly until they reach a base case. The base case breaks out of the recursion loop, thus allowing previous calls to the function to return a result. If no such case exists, the function will call itself indefinitely resulting in a stack overflow.
Recursion is the **repeated application of a process**. In JavaScript, recursion involves functions that call themselves repeatedly until they reach a base case. The base case breaks out of the recursion loop, thus allowing previous calls to the function to return a result. If no such case exists, the function will call itself indefinitely resulting in a stack overflow.
Recursion is used to solve problems where the solution depends on solutions to smaller instances of the same problem. A commonly-used example of a problem that can be solved recursively is the Fibonacci sequence: