Preact VS react-18

Compare Preact vs react-18 and see what are their differences.

Preact

⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM. (by preactjs)

react-18

Workgroup for React 18 release. (by reactwg)
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Preact react-18
111 139
36,021 5,173
0.5% 0.2%
9.3 0.0
6 days ago almost 3 years ago
JavaScript
MIT License -
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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 2024-04-23.
  • Preact vs React: A Comparative Guide
    2 projects | dev.to | 23 Apr 2024
    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.
  • 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

react-18

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-18. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Preact and react-18 you can also consider the following projects:

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

htmx - </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

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

petite-vue - 6kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement

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

react-query - 🤖 Powerful asynchronous state management, server-state utilities and data fetching for TS/JS, React, Solid, Svelte and Vue. [Moved to: https://github.com/TanStack/query]

Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps

React - The library for web and native user interfaces.

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

zustand - 🐻 Bear necessities for state management in React

lit-element - LEGACY REPO. This repository is for maintenance of the legacy LitElement library. The LitElement base class is now part of the Lit library, which is developed in the lit monorepo.

rfcs - RFCs for substantial changes / feature additions to Vue core