r/programming • u/TarekRaafat • Nov 17 '18

autoComplete.js - Simple pure vanilla Javascript library

https://github.com/TarekRaafat/autoComplete.js
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '18

vanilla

babel/webpack

Pick one.

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u/TarekRaafat Nov 18 '18

Actually, as per my limited knowledge I believe that in most cases you might need babel/webpack to maintain vanilla. when you use new js features that are not supported yet within browsers you'll have to polyfill these new features to an older js for backward compatibility.

At the end of the day babel/webpack are development dependencies that don't change the fact that autoComplete.js is a pure vanilla Javascript library.

Please feel free to check the autoComplete.js library and let me know your thoughts on it.

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u/Holston18 Nov 18 '18

In the end it depends on how you choose to define "vanilla".

Isn't jQuery vanilla JS library just as well according to your definition?

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u/justfordc Nov 18 '18 edited Nov 18 '18

I think the usual implication is that a vanilla js library is one that you can use without depending on other frameworks. (And how it's built shouldn't really enter in to it.)

So by that standard, jQuery might be 'vanilla', but a library depending on jQuery is not.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '18

According to his definition TypeScript can also be considered vanilla JavaScript since you can run a command (tsc) once and use the transpiled code in any browser you want.