Christian Peterson

Update

Tuesday, 3/5/2023

This past month, I completed an exercise using both Vanilla JavaScript and React JavaScript. I learned how to create different buttons and actions, including writing and entering text into a textbox, allowing it to go into a list, and being able to delete and edit those items in the list. I found there to be many differences between the two. Vanilla JavaScript is basically the use of it without the help of outside libraries or frameworks. While there is more control over what to do, you need to be a lot more advanced in the education, as well as have more of a framework in HTML. React JavaScript is a JavaScript library, and thus has its own elements to it as well. You will need to sign up for it, and it requires additional tools. It does simplify the UI elements though, and while Vanilla is easier to customize, react is generally simpler. I plan to maybe use Javascript to make some small animations, but that’s it.