Creating multidimensional arrays & matrices in Javascript

Here's a non-recursive solution:

function mCreate() {
  var result = 0, i;

  for(i = arguments.length - 1; i >= 0 ; i--) {
    result = new Array(arguments[i]).fill(result);
  }

  return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(result));
}

The JSON functions are used to mimic a deep clone, but that causes the function to be non-performant.

function mCreate() {
  var result = 0, i;
  
  for(i = arguments.length - 1; i >= 0 ; i--) {
    result = new Array(arguments[i]).fill(result);
  }

  return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(result));
}


console.log(JSON.stringify(mCreate(2, 2, 2)));
console.log(JSON.stringify(mCreate(1, 2, 3, 4)));
console.log(JSON.stringify(mCreate(5)));
console.log(JSON.stringify(mCreate(1, 5)));
console.log(JSON.stringify(mCreate(5, 1)));

var m = mCreate(1, 2, 3, 4);
m[0][1][1][3] = 4;
console.log(JSON.stringify(m));

Recursive algorithms may be easier to reason about, but generally they're not required. In this particular case the iterative approach is simple enough.

Your problem consists of two parts:

1. creating an array with variable number of 0-value elements
2. creating variable number of arrays of previously created arrays

Here's an implementation of what I think you're trying to create:

function nested() {
  // handle the deepest level first, because we need to generate the zeros
  var result = [];
  for (var zeros = arguments[arguments.length - 1]; zeros > 0; zeros--) {
    result.push(0);
  }

  // for every argument, walking backwards, we clone the
  // previous result as often as requested by that argument
  for (var i = arguments.length - 2; i >= 0; i--) {
    var _clone = [];
    for (var clones = arguments[i]; clones > 0; clones--) {
      // result.slice() returns a shallow copy
      _clone.push(result.slice(0));
    }

    result = _clone;
  }

  if (arguments.length > 2) {
    // the shallowly copying the array works fine for 2 dimensions,
    // but for higher dimensions, we need to compensate
    return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(result));
  }

  return result;
}

Since writing the algorithm is only half of the solution, here's the test to verify our function actually performs the way we want it to. We'd typically use one of the gazillion test runners (e.g. mocha or AVA). But since I don't know your setup (if any), we'll just do this manually:

var tests = [
  {
    // the arguments we want to pass to the function.
    // translates to nested(2, 2)
    input: [2, 2],
    // the result we expect the function to return for
    // the given input
    output: [
      [0, 0],
      [0, 0]
    ]
  },
  {
    input: [2, 3],
    output: [
      [0, 0, 0],
      [0, 0, 0]
    ]
  },
  {
    input: [3, 2],
    output: [
      [0, 0],
      [0, 0],
      [0, 0]
    ]
  },
  {
    input: [3, 2, 1],
    output: [
      [
        [0], [0]
      ],
      [
        [0], [0]
      ],
      [
        [0], [0]
      ]
    ]
  },
];

tests.forEach(function(test) {
  // execute the function with the input array as arguments
  var result = nested.apply(null, test.input);
  // verify the result is correct
  var matches = JSON.stringify(result) === JSON.stringify(test.output);
  if (!matches) {
    console.error('failed input', test.input);
    console.log('got', result, 'but expected', rest.output);
  } else {
    console.info('passed', test.input);
  }
});

It's up to you to define and handle edge-cases, like nested(3, 0), nested(0, 4), nested(3, -1) or nested(-1, 2).

As suggested by @Pranav, you should use arguments object.

Recursion + arguments object

function mCreate() {
  var args = arguments;
  var result = [];
  if (args.length > 1) {
    for (var i = 1; i < args.length; i++) {
      var new_args = Array.prototype.slice.call(args, 1);
      result.push(mCreate.apply(this, new_args));
    }
  } else {
    for (var i = 0; i < args[0]; i++) {
      result.push(0)
    }
  }
  return result;
}

function print(obj) {
  document.write("<pre>" + JSON.stringify(obj, 0, 4) + "</pre>");
}
print(mCreate(2, 2, 2, 2))

The gist is to pass in the result of a create as the second argument of create except for the last (or the first depending on how you look at it) instance:

function create(n, v) {
  let arr = Array(n || 0);
  if (v !== undefined) arr.fill(v);
  return arr;
}

create(2, create(2, 0)); // [[0,0],[0,0]]
create(2, create(2, create(2, 0))); // [[[0,0],[0,0]],[[0,0],[0,0]]]

DEMO

Using a loop we can build up array dimensions:

function loop(d, l) {
  var out = create(d, 0);
  for (var i = 0; i < l - 1; i++) {
    out = create(d, out);
  }
  return out;
}

loop(2,2) // [[0,0],[0,0]]
loop(2,3) // [[[0,0],[0,0]],[[0,0],[0,0]]]
loop(1,3) // [[[0]]]

DEMO