Arrays work the same way in JavaScript as they do in pretty much any other language. They are zero indexed, and you can declare a variable as an empty array or a pre-populated array. You can manipulate the items in an array, and arrays are not fixed in length:
var favFoods = ['pizza', 'cheeseburgers', 'french fries']; var stuff = []; // empty array var moreStuff = new Array(); // empty array var firstFood = favFoods[0]; // => pizza
// array functions: favFoods.push('salad'); // add new item
// => ['pizza', 'cheeseburgers', 'french fries', 'salad'] favFoods.pop(); // remove the last item // => ['pizza', 'cheeseburgers', 'french fries'] var first = favFoods.shift(); // remove the first item // => first = 'pizza'; // => favFoods = ['cheeseburgers', 'french fries']
To be more precise, you can consider arrays as extended child classes of the base Object class with extra implementations of Array functions.