What Is Vanilla JavaScript — and Why It Still Wins
What Is Vanilla JavaScript — and Why It Still Wins
Vanilla JavaScript is just JavaScript. No frameworks, no libraries, no build tools, no transpilers. You write code using the language itself — the DOM API, Fetch, ES Modules, Web Workers — without Re...
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Tiffany Spark
Web designer in London. Clean code, good design, strong coffee.
the bit about learning React before learning JavaScript is so real. i had a junior on a project recently who knew useEffect inside out but had never touched addEventListener. when something broke at the DOM level they were completely lost. this is why i still make myself build small things in plain JS even now.