React vs Preact?

For a small project that needa blazing fast speed, which to prefer.

• REACT
• PREACT
• INFERNO
• MITHRIL
• MOON

Comments

[Heiker]

Blazing fast in what sense? Creating nodes, Updating the ui, bundle size?

Both Preact and React are fast enough.

I will choose Preact, because is 3kb.

But if you want to use hooks with preact you have to install an unstable version preact@next because the stable version doesn't have them.

[🇨🇵️ Nathan Graule]

Preact entered beta a few weeks ago, and so far it's been quite stable. I'm using it for 2 projects - nothing to report bar one quirky TypeScript typing.

[Saurabh Sharma]

I would say start with react and eject when you find preact is actually making your app faster.

[Beey]

For blazing fast speed generaly(You didnt give in specific about what) Even tho react and preact can run fast i would say to get preact heres why:

Preact is shorter than react meaning it will take less time to load the files

One major downside to point out: hooks you have alot of options that take longer than react hooks(React hooks are built-in).

Some options for hooks in preact:

Preact 10 or known as Preact X and newer have stable release's of hooks

You can import hooks with import { HOOK_NAME } from "preact/hooks"

For older models like preact 9 or 8 you will have to use preact@next and that is unstable

Just one note: I dont think you can run hooks without an unstable version on preact 9 or older as those were models from before 2019 June 27

[Mahesh K]

Preact, definitely. I'd say you can also use react with better CDN for serving media elements. If that's something you are planning on using.

[anpos231]

Inferno ;P