---
title: "How to Use Recursion in React"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-recursion-in-react-viweap-th
source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-recursion-in-react/
type: article
source: "freeCodeCamp"
author: "Nishant Kumar"
published: 2022-08-09T21:00:40.647Z
updated: 2022-08-09T21:00:40.574Z
tags: ["react", "recursion"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 33
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# How to Use Recursion in React

**[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · [@nishant666](https://daily.dev/nishant666) · 6 min read · 33 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

Recursion simply means calling the same function inside itself. To represent our family tree effectively we will use something called Recursion. We can map each array inside an array to get the whole family tree in the list. The entire code can look ugly and the process can become hectic. It is so confusing that I was stuck here too. So, let's do the same thing. The code would be much cleaner now. So let's use Recursion. Now, let’s use Recursions.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@chris1993** · 2 upvotes

> Recently, when I was developing an address book component, I also encountered the same problem. 🍨The content introduced by the author is very helpful to me, thank the author.

**@dorji\_dev** · 1 upvotes

> Bookmarked and thank you for the article. It surely will be super useful for those who may face such issues in times to come!

**@ghost** · 1 upvotes

> Good tutorial, I think I will need this in future.

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