Declare an array in TypeScript

I'm having trouble either declaring or using a boolean array in Typescript, not sure which is wrong. I get an undefined error. Am I supposed to use JavaScript syntax or declare a new Array object?

Which one of these is the correct way to create the array?

private columns = boolean[];
private columns = [];
private columns = new Array<boolean>();

How would I initialize all the values to be false?

How would I access the values, can I access them like, columns[i] = true;..?

Solution 1:

Here are the different ways in which you can create an array of booleans in typescript:

let arr1: boolean[] = [];
let arr2: boolean[] = new Array();
let arr3: boolean[] = Array();

let arr4: Array<boolean> = [];
let arr5: Array<boolean> = new Array();
let arr6: Array<boolean> = Array();

let arr7 = [] as boolean[];
let arr8 = new Array() as Array<boolean>;
let arr9 = Array() as boolean[];

let arr10 = <boolean[]> [];
let arr11 = <Array<boolean>> new Array();
let arr12 = <boolean[]> Array();

let arr13 = new Array<boolean>();
let arr14 = Array<boolean>();

You can access them using the index:

console.log(arr[5]);

and you add elements using push:

arr.push(true);

When creating the array you can supply the initial values:

let arr1: boolean[] = [true, false];
let arr2: boolean[] = new Array(true, false);

Solution 2:

this is how you can create an array of boolean in TS and initialize it with false:

var array: boolean[] = [false, false, false]

or another approach can be:

var array2: Array<boolean> =[false, false, false] 

you can specify the type after the colon which in this case is boolean array