When you start to use JavaScript you will deal with arrays quite frequently. You'll also use nodeLists quite freqently too. In a way they may seem alike but there are important differences between the two.

NodeList

A collection of nodes. A node is a single point in a node tree. For example, a HTML document is represented as a node tree. The DOM is used to access and manipulate the document. Can iterate over using forEach() or a for loop. Can be converted to an array.

Some are LIVE and some are STATIC

  • Live: changes in the DOM will automatically update a collection such as parent's childNodes.
  • Static: changes in the DOM doesn't affect the content of a collection. This is the case with querySelectorAll().

Whether is's static or live will determine how you iterate over the items of a nodeList. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NodeList

Array

Arrays are list-like objects