Vanilla JavaScript
6 months ago
- #JavaScript
- #Web Development
- #Frameworks
- Vanilla JS is a lightweight and intuitive framework maintained by the Vanilla JS team.
- Major companies like YouTube, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, and Netflix use Vanilla JS.
- Vanilla JS is more widely used than jQuery, Prototype JS, MooTools, YUI, and Google Web Toolkit combined.
- To use Vanilla JS, include `<script src='path/to/vanilla.js'></script>` in your HTML.
- Vanilla JS is automatically loaded by browsers, making it highly efficient for production.
- Performance benchmarks show Vanilla JS outperforms other frameworks in DOM manipulation tasks.
- Examples provided include fading an element out and making AJAX calls with Vanilla JS compared to jQuery.
- Further resources include Vanilla JS documentation, books, and plugins.