GWT vs Preact

Overview

GWT

Stacks88

Followers100

Votes0

Preact

Stacks1.1K

Followers292

Votes28

GWT vs Preact: What are the differences?

Developers describe GWT as "*An open-source set of tools to create and maintain complex JavaScript front-end applications *". It is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. Its goal is to enable productive development of high-performance web applications without the developer having to be an expert in browser quirks, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript. On the other hand, Preact is detailed as "Fast 3kb alternative to React with the same ES6 API". Preact is an attempt to recreate the core value proposition of React (or similar libraries like Mithril) using as little code as possible, with first-class support for ES2015. Currently the library is around 3kb (minified & gzipped).

GWT belongs to "Javascript MVC Frameworks" category of the tech stack, while Preact can be primarily classified under "Javascript UI Libraries".

Preact is an open source tool with 23.3K GitHub stars and 1.23K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Preact's open source repository on GitHub.

Resource Guru, Bustle, and VN2RAP are some of the popular companies that use Preact, whereas GWT is used by LTE Consulting, Whatfix, and Unmetric. Preact has a broader approval, being mentioned in 16 company stacks & 39 developers stacks; compared to GWT, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Advice on GWT, Preact

Damiano

Oct 27, 2019

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Preact offers an API which is extremely similar to React's for less than 10% of its size (and createElement is renamed to h, which makes the overall bundle a lot smaller). Although it is less compatible with other libraries than the latter (and its ecosystem is nowhere as developed), this is generally not a problem as Preact exposes the preact/compat API, which can be used as an alias both for React and ReactDOM and allows for the use of libraries which would otherwise just be compatible with React.

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Detailed Comparison

GWT	Preact
It is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. Its goal is to enable productive development of high-performance web applications without the developer having to be an expert in browser quirks, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript.	Preact is an attempt to recreate the core value proposition of React (or similar libraries like Mithril) using as little code as possible, with first-class support for ES2015. Currently the library is around 3kb (minified & gzipped).
Statistics
Stacks 88	Stacks 1.1K
Followers 100	Followers 292
Votes 0	Votes 28
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet	Pros 15 Lightweight 5 Drop-in replacement for React 4 Performance 3 Props/state passed to render 1 ES6 class components
Integrations
No integrations available	React

What are some alternatives to GWT, Preact?

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

AngularJS

AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

React

Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

jQuery UI

Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.

Ember.js

A JavaScript framework that does all of the heavy lifting that you'd normally have to do by hand. There are tasks that are common to every web app; It does those things for you, so you can focus on building killer features and UI.

Backbone.js

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

Svelte

If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.