What is the different between stack and call stack in Javascript?

Question

I'm now learning the basics of javascript. I face confusion about the difference between Stack and Call stack on the video and article I watch and read.

here is the stack I watch from the videos, and it said stack is a place to put your primitive values and pointer.

and in another article, I also got the term call stack, which is a data structure that stores information about the active subroutines of a computer program

are those terms the same or it has a subtle difference? or is it my mistake to understand them? thanks

Answer 1

Stack in Stack & Heap sense is where a program stores a method's variables values or references (reference values are stored in Heap). For clarification I will call it State of method.

But an application running, typically has only one active Stack . so when you call another method (or itself recursively like your example) we need to save current State and create new space to store State of newly called method so we can restore previous method's State afterward. We do this with a data structure called Stack that support Last-In-First-Out (LIFO) to track called methods State . We call that Call Stack