Preact VS React

Compare Preact vs React and see what are their differences.

Preact

⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM. (by preactjs)
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Preact React
110 1,686
36,021 221,535
0.5% 0.9%
9.3 9.8
about 3 hours ago about 8 hours ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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.

React

Posts with mentions or reviews of React. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Preact and React you can also consider the following projects:

react-18 - Workgroup for React 18 release.

qwik - Instant-loading web apps, without effort

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

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

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

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

SvelteKit - web development, streamlined

Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps

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.

Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.