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title: "What is role of an array object in JS and why are we use the array?"
description: "What is role of an array object in JS and why are we use the array?"
author: "Ravi Vishwakarma"
published: 2021-07-19
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93738/what-is-role-of-an-array-object-in-js-and-why-are-we-use-the-array
category: "web application"
tags: ["javascript"]
reading_time: 2 minutes
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# What is role of an array object in JS and why are we use the array?
What is [role](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/2317/how-to-create-role-and-enable-role-in-mvc) of an [array](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/14/array) [object in JS](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93742/what-is-work-of-math-object-in-js) and why are we use the array?
## Answers
### Answer by Ethan Karla
An array is a special type of variable, which can hold more than one value at a time. If you have a list of items (a list of fruits names, for example), storing the fruits in single variables could look like this.
```
let fruit1 = 'apple';
let fruit2 = 'banana';
let fruit3 = 'orange';
```
However, what if you want to loop through the fruits and find a specific one? And what if you had not 3 fruits, but 300. The solution is an array. An array can hold many values under a single name, and you can access the values by referring to an index number. There are two way to create array in js. • By literals • By new keyword of array constructor **By Literals** Syntax
```
const array_name = [item1, item2, ...];
```
Example
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JavaScript Arrays
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**By new keyword** Syntax
```
Variable-name= new Array (data1, data2, data3, ----);
```
Example
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JavaScript Arrays
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