Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript

Using recursion to serialize data

Recursion is a very popular programming paradigm in which a problem statement can be broken down into several smaller problems, which can be defined in terms of itself. Recursion is usually confused with divide and concur, in which the problem statement is broken into non-overlapping sub-problems which can be solved simultaneously.

In the following section, we will take a simple tree in which we have a root element followed by some child elements. We will be serializing this tree data, which can then be easily sent to the UI or persisted in the database.

Let's first create a folder called recursion within our project, which we created based on the preceding section. Then, we can create our serializer.js