When talking with developers, you may hear vanilla PHP, JavaScriptJavaScript is a scripting development language. Javascript is used to allow web pages to be interactive and is one of..., or any other language. The developer refers to the base language with no frameworks or libraries. It is the plain old vanilla version of the language–basic and straightforward. This is the rawest version of the language available to a developer to make developers’ jobs easier.
Other frameworks and libraries are built on top of the vanilla version of the language to speed up development and add more features and functions so things don’t have to be created every single time from scratch.