How to instantiate, initialize and populate an array in TypeScript?

There isn't a field initialization syntax like that for objects in JavaScript or TypeScript.

Option 1:

class bar {
    // Makes a public field called 'length'
    constructor(public length: number) { }
}

bars = [ new bar(1) ];

Option 2:

interface bar {
    length: number;
}

bars = [ {length: 1} ];

If you really want to have named parameters plus have your objects be instances of your class, you can do the following:

class bar {
    constructor (options?: {length: number; height: number;}) {
        if (options) {
            this.length = options.length;
            this.height = options.height;
        }
    }
    length: number;
    height: number;
}

class foo {
    bars: bar[] = new Array();
}

var ham = new foo();
ham.bars = [
    new bar({length: 4, height: 2}),
    new bar({length: 1, height: 3})
];

Also here's the related item on typescript issue tracker.

A simple solution could be:

interface bar {
    length: number;
}

let bars: bar[];
bars = [];