Preact VS solid

Compare Preact vs solid and see what are their differences.

Preact

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

solid

A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces. (by solidui)
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Preact solid
111 52
36,021 31,000
0.5% 1.4%
9.3 8.9
6 days ago 10 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License 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

solid

Posts with mentions or reviews of solid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
  • Resources for understanding the Solid compiler
    3 projects | /r/solidjs | 18 Apr 2023
    The reactivity core, which is in https://github.com/solidjs/solid This is where you'll see the reactivity runtime implementation. Take note that Solid's reactivity doesn't rely on compile-time magic
  • Are there any go backends that work with solid?
    1 project | /r/solidjs | 14 Apr 2023
    I did try this but I'm not sure what you mean with the ssrLoadFrom. Is there any documentation on this, all I could find was the examples folder in solidjs: solid-ssr?
  • Solid JS compared to svelte?
    2 projects | /r/solidjs | 17 Mar 2023
    This is very true. I really hate svelte single file components. But then I tried JSX for breaking things down. I love solid but I don't feel really good about angle brackets within C style syntax. I saw this Scala library that stick with simple statically typed function syntax than html tags. I don't understand why people still wants to stick with xml like tags. In laminar markup is written like this scala div( h1("Hello world", color := "red"), inputCaption, input(inputMods, name := "fullName"), div( ">>", button("Submit"), "<<" ) ) I wish solid team makes their HyperScript syntax as performant as JSX.
  • Building an E-commerce Store: A Step-by-Step Guide with Solidjs and Medusa
    3 projects | dev.to | 8 Mar 2023
    What is Solid?
  • Learn how to install SolidJS with Flowbite and Tailwind CSS
    6 projects | dev.to | 20 Feb 2023
    import logo from './logo.svg'; import styles from './App.module.css'; import 'flowbite'; function App() { return (
    logo

    Edit src/App.jsx and save to reload.

    Learn Solid, Tailwind CSS and Flowbite Toggle Flowbite modal
    ); } export default App;
  • Does solid start support CSR or SSG if so how?
    3 projects | /r/solidjs | 14 Feb 2023
    There is example of each technique in Solid's main repo: https://github.com/solidjs/solid/tree/main/packages/solid-ssr/examples
  • Proposal for separation of concerns and immutable state
    1 project | /r/solidjs | 26 Jan 2023
    I basically came up with an idea that is much like flutter's bloc pattern, and probably waht ryansolid was referring to in his reply to this issue when he said he made his own version of redux that codifies state changes instead of immutable state.
  • Flutter 3 の状態管理 (State、ステート): アプローチ (概念)
    3 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2023
  • SolidJS Crash Course - Building a REST API Client - Part 1
    1 project | dev.to | 1 Jan 2023
  • Stores and indexed accessors
    1 project | /r/solidjs | 20 Dec 2022
    After seeing how inactive this sub was, I took it to Github: https://github.com/solidjs/solid/discussions/1440

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Preact and solid 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.

SvelteKit - web development, streamlined

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

Angular - Deliver web apps with confidence 🚀

Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps

astro - The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work!

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

inferno - :fire: An extremely fast, React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces

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.

sycamore - A library for creating reactive web apps in Rust and WebAssembly