What are the best practices to follow when declaring an array in Javascript?

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Mostly, people use var a = [] because Douglas Crockford says so.

His reasons include the non-intuitive and inconsistent behaviour of new Array():

var a = new Array(5);     // an array pre-sized to 5 elements long
var b = new Array(5, 10); // an array with two elements in it

Note that there’s no way with new Array() to create an array with just one pre-specified number element in it!

Using [] is actually more efficient, and safer too! It’s possible to overwrite the Array constructor and make it do odd things, but you can’t overwrite the behaviour of [].

Personally, I always use the [] syntax, and similarly always use {} syntax in place of new Object().

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