freeCodeCamp/guide/english/certifications/coding-interview-prep/data-structures/breadth-first-search/index.md

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title: Breadth-First Search
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# Breadth-First Search


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## Solutions

<details><summary>Solution 1 (Click to Show/Hide)</summary>

```js
function bfs(graph, root) {
  // Distance object returned
  var nodesLen = {};
  // Set all distances to infinity
  for (var i = 0; i < graph.length; i++) {
    nodesLen[i] = Infinity;
  }
  nodesLen[root] = 0; // ...except root node
  var queue = [root]; // Keep track of nodes to visit
  var current; // Current node traversing
  // Keep on going until no more nodes to traverse
  while (queue.length !== 0) {
    current = queue.shift();
    // Get adjacent nodes from current node
    var curConnected = graph[current]; // Get layer of edges from current
    var neighborIdx = []; // List of nodes with edges
    var idx = curConnected.indexOf(1); // Get first edge connection
    while (idx !== -1) {
      neighborIdx.push(idx); // Add to list of neighbors
      idx = curConnected.indexOf(1, idx + 1); // Keep on searching
    }
    // Loop through neighbors and get lengths
    for (var j = 0; j < neighborIdx.length; j++) {
      // Increment distance for nodes traversed
      if (nodesLen[neighborIdx[j]] === Infinity) {
        nodesLen[neighborIdx[j]] = nodesLen[current] + 1;
        queue.push(neighborIdx[j]); // Add new neighbors to queue
      }
    }
  }
  return nodesLen;
}
```
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