preact-compat VS Preact

Compare preact-compat vs Preact and see what are their differences.

preact-compat

ATTENTION: The React compatibility layer for Preact has moved to the main preact repo. (by preactjs)

Preact

⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM. (by preactjs)
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preact-compat Preact
2 110
956 36,021
- 0.5%
1.5 9.3
over 2 years ago 5 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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preact-compat

Posts with mentions or reviews of preact-compat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-01.
  • Don't Optimize Your React App, Use Preact Instead
    4 projects | dev.to | 1 Nov 2021
    For react app I used Create React App and for Preact used preact-cli. Preact also gives an option to convert your existing react app to preact using preact-compat, but I have built an app from scratch to see the best result.
  • Next.js: Replace React with Preact
    3 projects | dev.to | 28 Feb 2021
    If you use the preact-combat like in the example above then there is very little that isn't supported. For example, PropTypes are not supported in the core but are included in preact-combat.

Preact

Posts with mentions or reviews of Preact. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-05.
  • Episode 24/13: Native Signals, Details on Angular/Wiz, Alan Agius on the Angular CLI
    11 projects | dev.to | 5 Apr 2024
    Similarly to Promises/A+, this effort focuses on aligning the JavaScript ecosystem. If this alignment is successful, then a standard could emerge, based on that experience. Several framework authors are collaborating here on a common model which could back their reactivity core. The current draft is based on design input from the authors/maintainers of Angular, Bubble, Ember, FAST, MobX, Preact, Qwik, RxJS, Solid, Starbeam, Svelte, Vue, Wiz, and more…
  • Proposal: Signals as a Built-In Primitive of JavaScript
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Mar 2024
    Those who want to develop a library that can be used by any other reactive framework. I often see SignalLike type that tries to subtype it.

    https://github.com/preactjs/preact/blob/757746a915d186a90954...

  • Preact: Lightweight React Alternative
    1 project | dev.to | 27 Jan 2024
    The official Preact documentation.
  • How I built a cross-framework frontend library
    3 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2024
    At the very bottom of the image, there are 3 blocks that I chose to call application components. If you are building a cross-framework library, these can be built with whatever tools you want! Only catch is, all the tools you use to build it, will be needed by everyone consuming it. So choose wisely, and be mindful of how many kilobytes of third party code you will need in order to ship. In Schedule-X, I chose to use Preact. You will probably be fine with most lightweight virtual DOM libraries, and just like with frameworks there are a few to pick from.
  • React Jam just started, making a game in 13 days with React
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023
    >> React is not traditionally used for making games, but that's part of the fun and the challenge. R

    > MS Flight Simulator cockpits are built with MSFS Avionics Framework which is React-like and MIT licensed:

    https://github.com/microsoft/msfs-avionics-mirror/tree/main/...

    preactjs may or may not be faster: https://preactjs.com/

    Million.js is faster than preact, and lists a number of references under Acknowledgements: https://github.com/aidenybai/million#acknowledgments

    https://million.dev/docs :

    > We use a novel approach to the virtual DOM called the block virtual DOM. You can read more on what the block virtual DOM is with Virtual DOM: Back in Block and how we make it happen in React with Behind the block().*

    React API reference > Components > Profiler:

  • Have You Built with Preact?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Dec 2023
  • Quando um framework é melhor que a manipulação nativa do DOM
    2 projects | dev.to | 9 Dec 2023
  • HTML Data Attributes: One of the Original State Management Libraries
    5 projects | dev.to | 29 Nov 2023
    DEV is a Rails monolith, which uses Preact in the front-end using islands architecture. The reason why I mention all this is that it's not a full-stack JavaScript application, and there is no state management library like Redux or Zustand in use. The data store, for the most part on the front end, is all data attributes.
  • Show HN: Cami.js – A No Build, Web Component Based Reactive Framework
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2023
  • Hacktoberfest 2023 Recap
    10 projects | dev.to | 27 Oct 2023
    Along the way, I not only got the oppurtunity to revise old concepts that had blurred in my memory, but also learnt about new technologies like Fresh.js, a framework from Deno (a js runtime engine) that uses Preact, a React Routing library and used Chakra UI for the first time.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing preact-compat and Preact you can also consider the following projects:

preact-cli - 😺 Your next Preact PWA starts in 30 seconds.

react-18 - Workgroup for React 18 release.

preact-bundle-test

Alpine.js - A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.

react-rest-dom - Library that allows you to consume Rest APIs through the React DOM.

solid - A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

kReact - Let's learn React by building react within 100 lines of code

lit - Lit is a simple library for building fast, lightweight web components.

vhtml - Render JSX/Hyperscript to HTML strings, without VDOM 🌈

Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps

tsdx - Zero-config CLI for TypeScript package development

Vue.js - This is the repo for Vue 2. For Vue 3, go to https://github.com/vuejs/core