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React vs Preact?

Ali Abbas on June 08, 2019

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

  • REACT
  • PREACT
  • INFERNO
  • MITHRIL
  • MOON
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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.

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🇨🇵️ 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.

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Saurabh Sharma

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

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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.

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anpos231

Inferno ;P