Create an array with same element repeated multiple times

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In Python, where [2] is a list, the following code gives this output:

[2] * 5 # Outputs: [2,2,2,2,2]

Does there exist an easy way to do this with an array in JavaScript?

I wrote the following function to do it, but is there something shorter or better?

var repeatelem = function(elem, n){
    // returns an array with element elem repeated n times.
    var arr = [];

    for (var i = 0; i <= n; i++) {
        arr = arr.concat(elem);
    };

    return arr;
};

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In ES6 using Array fill() method

console.log(
  Array(5).fill(2)
)
//=> [2, 2, 2, 2, 2]

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