There are many ways to create arrays. The most common are to use array literals, or the Array constructor:
var arr = [1, 2, 3, 4];
var arr2 = new Array(1, 2, 3, 4);
If the Array constructor is used with no arguments, an empty array is created.
var arr3 = new Array();
results in:
[]
Note that if it's used with exactly one argument and that argument is a number
, an array of that length with all undefined
values will be created instead:
var arr4 = new Array(4);
results in:
[undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined]
That does not apply if the single argument is non-numeric:
var arr5 = new Array("foo");
results in:
["foo"]
Similar to an array literal, Array.of
can be used to create a new Array
instance given a number of arguments:
Array.of(21, "Hello", "World");
results in:
[21, "Hello", "World"]
In contrast to the Array constructor, creating an array with a single number such as Array.of(23)
will create a new array [23]
, rather than an Array with length 23.
The other way to create and initialize an array would be Array.from
var newArray = Array.from({ length: 5 }, (_, index) => Math.pow(index, 4));
will result:
[0, 1, 16, 81, 256]