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The Vanilla JS team takes pride in the fact that it is the most lightweight framework available anywhere; using our production-quality deployment strategy, your users' browsers will have Vanilla JS loaded into memory before it even requests your site. To use Vanilla JS, just put the following code anywhere in your application's HTML. Vanilla, (genus Vanilla), any member of a group of tropical climbing orchids (family Orchidaceae) and the flavouring agent extracted from their pods. Buy Vanilla Beans and Flavor Extracts for Baking at Beanilla The USA’s leading online purveyor of gourmet vanilla beans, pure extracts, and baking ingredients Here at Beanilla, we’re all about professional grade vanilla and baking ingredients; we love hunting out the very best beans, paste and extracts from around the world just for you!

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Vanilla JS is a fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework
for building incredible, powerful JavaScript applications.

Introduction

The Vanilla JS team maintains every byte of code in the framework and works hard each day to make sure it is small and intuitive. Who's using Vanilla JS? Glad you asked! Here are a few:

  • Facebook
  • Google
  • YouTube
  • Yahoo
  • Wikipedia
  • Windows Live
  • Twitter
  • Amazon
  • LinkedIn
  • MSN

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  • eBay
  • Microsoft
  • Tumblr
  • Apple
  • Pinterest
  • PayPal
  • Reddit
  • Netflix
  • Stack Overflow

In fact, Vanilla JS is already used on more websites than jQuery, Prototype JS, MooTools, YUI, and Google Web Toolkit - combined.

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Getting Started

The Vanilla JS team takes pride in the fact that it is the most lightweight framework available anywhere; using our production-quality deployment strategy, your users' browsers will have Vanilla JS loaded into memory before it even requests your site.

To use Vanilla JS, just put the following code anywhere in your application's HTML:

  1. <script src='path/to/vanilla.js'></script>

When you're ready to move your application to a production deployment, switch to the much faster method:

That's right - no code at all. Vanilla JS is so popular that browsers have been automatically loading it for over a decade.

Speed Comparison

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Here are a few examples of just how fast Vanilla JS really is:

Retrieve DOM element by ID

Codeops / sec
Vanilla JSdocument.getElementById('test-table');
12,137,211
Dojodojo.byId('test-table');
5,443,343
Prototype JS$('test-table')
2,940,734
Ext JSdelete Ext.elCache['test-table']; Ext.get('test-table');
997,562
jQuery$jq('#test-table');
350,557
YUIYAHOO.util.Dom.get('test-table');
326,534
MooToolsdocument.id('test-table');
78,802

Retrieve DOM elements by tag name

Codeops / sec
Vanilla JSdocument.getElementsByTagName('span');
8,280,893
Prototype JSPrototype.Selector.select('span', document);
62,872
YUIYAHOO.util.Dom.getElementsBy(function(){return true;},'span');
48,545
Ext JSExt.query('span');
46,915
jQuery$jq('span');
19,449
Dojodojo.query('span');
10,335
MooToolsSlick.search(document, 'span', new Elements);
5,457

Code Examples

Here are some examples of common tasks in Vanilla JS and other frameworks:

Fade an element out and then remove it

Vanilla JSvar s = document.getElementById('thing').style;s.opacity = 1;(function fade(){(s.opacity-=.1)<0?s.display='none':setTimeout(fade,40)})();
jQuery<script src='//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js'></script><script>$('#thing').fadeOut();</script>

Make an AJAX call

Vanilla JSvar r = new XMLHttpRequest();r.open('POST', 'path/to/api', true);r.onreadystatechange = function () { if (r.readyState != 4 || r.status != 200) return; alert('Success: ' + r.responseText);};r.send('banana=yellow');
jQuery<script src='//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js'></script><script>$.ajax({ type: 'POST', url: 'path/to/api', data: 'banana=yellow', success: function (data) { alert('Success: ' + data); },});</script>

Further Reading

For more information about Vanilla JS:

  • check out the Vanilla JSdocumentation
  • read some books on Vanilla JS
  • or try out one of the many Vanilla JSplugins.

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