FAQ: Graph Traversal: JavaScript - Depth-First Traversal (One path)

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Depth-First Traversal (One path)” exercise from the lesson “Graph Traversal: JavaScript”.

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Step 4 Part of this exercise is bothering me a little:
" If there was a cycle, or if the neighbor’s first connected vertex is the neighbor, we would be stuck in an infinite loop, iterating between the same neighbors. To account for this, we can add an array to keep track of all the vertices that we have visited. We should pass it in every recursive call, to make sure we never visit the same vertex more than once."

Sure that applies in directed acyclic graphs but there are graphs that are going to be undirected and we will by this virtue have to visit and edge or a vertex more than once. Should there be more comprehensive exercises in this section for both DAG and AG’s ??? If there is AG’s there should be other algos we’re learning here like how to implement Bellman Ford or what not.

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It is explained in the description we are making a function for traversing through a directed graph. This is our first traversal, I think more comprehensive exercises will be after this.