Why is the recursive function in node.js calling 500?

Question

recursion

There is a module that has a factorial calculation function

MMINF.prototype.factorial = function (n) {
    return (n != 1) ? n * this.factorial(n - 1) : 1;
};

the error sounds like this:

RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded

Is it impossible to work with recursion in a node or am I missing something obvious?