How to stop a requestAnimationFrame recursion/loop?

Stopping is as simple as not calling requestAnimationFrame anymore, and restarting is to call it it again. ex)

        var pause = false;
        function loop(){
                //... your stuff;
                if(pause) return;
                window.requestionAnimationFrame(loop);
        }
       loop(); //to start it off
       pause = true; //to stop it
       loop(); //to restart it

One way to start/stop is like this

var requestId;

function loop(time) {
    requestId = undefined;

    ...
    // do stuff
    ...

    start();
}

function start() {
    if (!requestId) {
       requestId = window.requestAnimationFrame(loop);
    }
}

function stop() {
    if (requestId) {
       window.cancelAnimationFrame(requestId);
       requestId = undefined;
    }
}

Working example:

const timeElem = document.querySelector("#time");
var requestId;

function loop(time) {
    requestId = undefined;
    
    doStuff(time)
    start();
}

function start() {
    if (!requestId) {
       requestId = window.requestAnimationFrame(loop);
    }
}

function stop() {
    if (requestId) {
       window.cancelAnimationFrame(requestId);
       requestId = undefined;
    }
}

function doStuff(time) {
  timeElem.textContent = (time * 0.001).toFixed(2);
}
  

document.querySelector("#start").addEventListener('click', function() {
  start();
});

document.querySelector("#stop").addEventListener('click', function() {
  stop();
});

<button id="start">start</button>
<button id="stop">stop</button>
<div id="time"></div>