preactjs/preact
⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 1 day ago, with 357 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #87 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 25, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a fast, lightweight alternative to React with a modern API for building UI components using Virtual DOM.
- Delivers React compatibility and performance benefits in a 4kB package, enabling smaller bundle sizes and faster load times.
- Use for developing high-performance web apps where minimizing JavaScript size is critical without sacrificing React-like features.
- Use for projects requiring seamless server-side rendering and hydration with an optimized diffing algorithm.
- Use for integrating React-compatible components in environments with limited resources or older browsers due to broad compatibility.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Fast 4kB alternative to React with the same modern API.
All the power of Virtual DOM components, without the overhead:
💁 Note: You don't need ES2015 to use Preact... but give it a try!
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+163 stars over 80 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +2 on Sep 28.
Forks
3.2K+1.1K
Open issues
38-2
Compared with peers in Frontend
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| heygen-com/hyperframes | 82.3K | +4.0K | 75 | today |
| remotion-dev/remotion | 72.3K | +1.9K | 75 | 1 day ago |
| DuarteSantos8/openGym | 20.8K | +1.7K | 75 | 7 days ago |
| superplanehq/superplane | 9.8K | +1.0K | 75 | 13 days ago |
| chthollyphile/folia-major | 12.3K | +928 | 75 | today |
| preactjs/preact | 39.0K | — | 65 | 1 day ago |
| Category median | 20.8K | +1.7K | 75 | — |
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