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Ryan Brown

Hi,
Usually the term Vanilla is used to refer to the base state of system. Without extra libraries or add-ons. In this case Vanilla JavasScript would be, all the functionality of JavaScript as provided by the browser (or other runtime like node.)
The website you linked vanilla JS seems to be a humor site pointing out all the features that JavaScript comes with "out of the box", without using jquery or other add-on frameworks.
They are correct that no script import is needed, because it already is JavaScript.
Just remember that the DOM is not the Scripting Language: oblig, SO link