Recursion and backtracking in JavaScript
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Problems to practice
- Fibonacci
- Permutations
- Subsets
- Combination Sum
- N-Queens
- Sudoku
Example: permutations
function permute(nums) {
const result = [];
function backtrack(path, remaining) {
if (remaining.length === 0) {
result.push([...path]);
return;
}
for (let i = 0; i < remaining.length; i++) {
const val = remaining[i];
path.push(val);
const next = remaining.filter((_, idx) => idx !== i);
backtrack(path, next);
path.pop();
}
}
backtrack([], nums);
return result;
}Interview guidance
Backtracking means trying a branch and undoing the choice when it fails.
Adapted from 16_DSA_JAVASCRIPT.md · “6. Recursion and backtracking in JavaScript”. Code examples are study fragments. Difficulty and core labels are editorial estimates; version-specific behavior should be checked against your project.