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This one never gets old.

• samplatt 7y ago
  App dev here; haven't touched js since ~2002... what's the joke?
  • karlding 7y ago
    It's poking fun at how there's a new flavour of JavaScript framework seemingly every week: Angular, React, Vue, Mithril, etc. Each one has a killer feature or some new spin on how to write your JavaScript code. The word "vanilla" is used here as an adjective to describe something that is "lacking distinction: plain, ordinary, or conventional" [0]. As such, the joke is that Vanilla JS is being presented as some amazing new framework, but it isn't anything more than regular JS that you would write. In a sense, it's the anti-JS framework, requiring no additional scripts or dependencies. [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanilla https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanilla