size-limit VS Preact

Compare size-limit vs Preact and see what are their differences.

size-limit

Calculate the real cost to run your JS app or lib to keep good performance. Show error in pull request if the cost exceeds the limit. (by ai)

Preact

⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM. (by preactjs)
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size-limit Preact
6 111
6,411 36,041
- 0.5%
8.6 9.3
about 1 month ago 1 day ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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size-limit

Posts with mentions or reviews of size-limit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-14.
  • How to build tree-shakeable JavaScript libraries
    7 projects | dev.to | 14 Sep 2022
    However, you can use the Size Limit library to control the size of a bundle or individual exports. Here’s an example configuration:
  • Trim the fat: tips for keeping bundle size small 🏋️
    3 projects | dev.to | 15 May 2022
    It's always good to keep track of these things over time so performance doesn't slide. Parcel, which I used for this project, has a helpful bundle analyzer (similar to the one for Webpack) that gives a nice visual overview of a project's bundle. This is especially helpful for identifying bundled dead code coming from packages that could be avoided with tree-shaking. There are also plenty of tools you can integrate with CI to enforce bundle size.
  • Understanding nouns with tinyplural
    3 projects | dev.to | 27 Dec 2021
    TSDX is a great package for npm packages like this and even bundles with size-limit to check your gzipped final bundle size. Keeping a tiny package was really important to me so there are 0 dependencies and size-limit made me realise that simplifying all of my checking functions into 1 or 2 core functions that took options would be a better strategy and help reduce the code size.
  • Codebytes: Shorter UUIDs with collision prediction using nanoid
    4 projects | dev.to | 15 Oct 2021
    Small. 130 bytes (minified and gzipped). No dependencies Size Limit controls the size.
  • 7 Trending projects on GitHub for JavaScript developers
    6 projects | dev.to | 29 Aug 2021
    Size Limit is a performance budget tool for JavaScript. It checks every commit on CI, calculates the real cost of your JS for end-users, and throws an error if the cost exceeds the limit. Link: https://github.com/ai/size-limit
  • Egghead's State Management Portfolio Club Journey - Week 1: An RDD Approach
    2 projects | dev.to | 17 Jun 2021
    -Mark Erikson and Joel Hooks talk on Redux -When and when not to reach for Redux -Redux Introduction -Egghead course by Dan Abramov on Fundamentals of Redux -RDD article by Tom Preston Werner -Another Article on RDD -Article on writing a great Readme -RDD Readme Example: size-limit

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing size-limit and Preact you can also consider the following projects:

GrapesJS - Free and Open source Web Builder Framework. Next generation tool for building templates without coding

react-18 - Workgroup for React 18 release.

tsdx - Zero-config CLI for TypeScript package development

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

tsdx - Zero-config CLI for TypeScript package development [Moved to: https://github.com/jaredpalmer/tsdx]

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

Plyr - A simple HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo player

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

nanoid.

Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps

three.js - JavaScript 3D Library.

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