> Why do these JS framework comparison articles never include http://vanilla-js.com/ http://vanilla-js.com/ ? It's all the new rage, and has these other contend

> Why do these JS framework comparison articles never include http://vanilla-js.com/ http://vanilla-js.com/ ? It's all the new rage, and has these other contenders beat every time when both post- and pre- compression. A JS framework is vanilla-js by definition. What you people fail to understand is the difference between a language (Javascript) and an API (the DOM). There is no DOM by default with Node. It would be stupid to say that Node isn't vanilla-js. Someone who is using jQuery is (obviously) using vanilla-js. People who can't tell the difference are the ones that should be mocked, not the ones using a framework because it's convenient. So please go read the javascript spec and educate yourselves about what javascript is.