Preact VS lit-element

There's so many articles, tools, and frameworks that help you develop for these users - but developers scorn them. Within the JavaScript subreddit, web workers are hated, even though they are one of the best tools we have for effectively developing apps on feature phones - scratch that, for all users!

> React is a small rendering library

Sorry, can't agree. React is a state management library that also attaches efficient rendering on top of the DOM diff it computes as it propagates the state changes.

This allows React apps to remain so simple (one function per component) and so composable without turning into an unmanageable dish of callback / future spaghetti.

There is a number of other VDOM libraries, but what sets React apart is the data / state flow strictly in one direction. This allows to reap many of the benefits of functional programming along the way, like everything the developer sees being immutable; not a coincidence.

Regarding the size, preact [1] is mostly API-compatible, but also absurdly small (3-4 kB minified), actually smaller than HTMX (10 kB). But with preact you likely also want preact-iso, so the size grows a little bit.

[1]: https://preactjs.com/

Performance and user experience have become the lifeline of modern web development. Two libraries that have gained immense popularity among developers for developing interactive user interfaces are React and Preact.

For rendering the map, I went with Preact and deck.gl.

This command creates a new Vite project with React. Feel free to replace “react” with “vue” or “vanilla” if that’s more your jam. Svelte, Preact, Qwik, and others are supported, too!

Note: Astro supports a variety of popular frameworks including React, Preact, Svelte, Vue, SolidJS, AlpineJS and Lit with official integrations. While for other frameworks e.g. Angular and Qwik, you may still benefit from this tutorial and you would need to further set up the community maintained framework integrations.

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In this post, we get to know more about Preact, one of this year's trending libraries. And we'll compare it to React to see which one suits better for our projects.

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…

Using vanilla JS or TS or using web components and want to have a framework-independent way of doing things? You can stick to the GraphQL codegen itself since it takes care of almost everything underneath. Or if you want, you can also use Apollo Client’s vanilla version @apollo/client/core. Apollo Elements does come with support for a lot of webcomponent libraries like Lit, Fast and Gluon or even without any of it and hence is quite flexible.

The LitElement framework is easy to use as a base class to create lightweight and faster web components for working with any framework. LitElement is yet another one of the top web development frameworks among developers for using lit-html for rendering into shadow DOM. It also adds API for managing attributes and properties. Let’s find out whether the framework is good enough for your project.

When you're working with Web Components through LitElement, it's usual firing events for sending messages between them. You can use either Standard or Custom events.

🔸lit-element - a simple base class for creating fast, lightweight web components;

Isn't this just Polymer Lit Elements rebranded? https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element

Web components are a good start, but it is better to use LitElement to build them in that case, instead of using it directly.

Other frameworks which are using the same principle are [lit-element](https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element) and [heresy](https://github.com/WebReflection/heresy). there are surely more but these are ones i've found when looking for inspiration.

Using a lit-element component: