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Breadth-first approach can be applied to determine the shortest path between two nodes in a graph. It searches the target node among all neighbors of the starting node. Then the process is repeated on the level of the neighbors of the neighbors and so on.
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bfs can only be used in case of equi-weighted graph to find the shortest path

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// visited keeps track of all nodes visited
const visited = []
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Use set for keeping track of the visited nodes

@ruppysuppy ruppysuppy merged commit 3c3cae6 into TheAlgorithms:master Feb 28, 2021
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