Unable to unerstand recursion

[ChandniB]

Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.

  **Your code so far**
  function rangeOfNumbers(startNum, endNum) {
return startNum <= -1 ? startNum.push : endNum >= -1 ? endNum.unshift : [];

}

console.log(rangeOfNumbers(1, 5));

function rangeOfNumbers(startNum, endNum) {
if(startNum <= 1){
 return = startNum.push (startNum-1) 
}else if (endNum <= 1){
  return endNum.unshift (endNum - 1)

  }else{
    return []
  }
  
};
console.log(rangeOfNumbers(1,5));

  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.159 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Use Recursion to Create a Range of Numbers

Link to the challenge:

freeCodeCamp.org

[kevinSmith]

Yes, recursion is very difficult when you are starting out. Heck, I’ve been doing this for a while and it still melts my brains sometimes. Cut yourself some slack.

There are a lot of discussions about recursion on the forum, especially recently for some strange reason. I’ve had two recent explanations, here and here. Take a look at those and other explanations in those threads and see if that helps. If not, come back and let us know what is still troubling you.