You Might Not Need that Framework – Frontend Masters Boost
September 30, 2024
This brings us to the concept of “Vanilla JavaScript,” which refers to developing web apps with just plain JavaScript and browser APIs, without large libraries or frameworks.In case you’re curious about the name, it comes from the ice cream industry: vanilla is the base flavor for many other varieties, making it the “base” option without additional layers on top.
I know what you might be thinking: learning vanilla JS seems like a lot of work, and it might feel like going back to the stone age. But let’s demystify some of these ideas.Using vanilla JS today is not comparable to writing assembler code or a very low-level solution, as some developers fear.
Source: You Might Not Need that Framework – Frontend Masters Boost
A detailed article by Maximiliano Firtman, looking at the features of vanilla JavaScript and the web platform that mean working without a framework is probably not the daunting challenge many filks accustomed to frameworks think it might be.
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