Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
Add tool
react vs preact: What are the differences?
react: React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces; preact: Fast 3kb React-compatible Virtual DOM library. Fast 3kb React-compatible Virtual DOM library.
react and preact can be categorized as "npm Packages" tools.
react and preact are both open source tools. It seems that react with 176K GitHub stars and 35.5K forks on GitHub has more adoption than preact with 30K GitHub stars and 1.67K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, react has a broader approval, being mentioned in 914 company stacks & 721 developers stacks; compared to preact, which is listed in 132 company stacks and 27 developer stacks.
preact Stats
- Dependent Packages Counts - 1.6K
react Stats
- Dependent Packages Counts - 103.1K
preact Vulnerabilities
- HTML Injection in preactModerate
react Vulnerabilities
- Cross-Site Scripting in reactHigh
- Cross-Site Scripting in reactModerate
preact Release info
Latest version
10.23.1
MIT
react Release info
Latest version
18.3.1
MIT
What is preact?
Fast 3kb React-compatible Virtual DOM library.
What is react?
React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
What companies use preact?
What companies use react?
What companies use preact?
What companies use react?
Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities
Learn MoreSign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions
What are some alternatives to preact and react?
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
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.
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.
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.