Issue understanding whats the issue

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Tell us what’s happening:
My solution is failing, I read this post My method was similar to solution 1 but I think I am missing some key concept here.

Your code so far


// Only change code below this line
function countdown(n){
if(n < 1)
  return [];
return countdown(n-1).unshift(n);
}
// Only change code above this line
console.log(countdown(2));

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Challenge: Use Recursion to Create a Countdown

Link to the challenge:

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unshift() returns the new length of the array, not the array itself.

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