Preact vs React Native for Windows

Overview

Preact

Stacks1.1K

Followers292

Votes28

React Native for Windows

Stacks6

Followers29

Votes0

GitHub Stars17.1K

Forks1.2K

Preact vs React Native for Windows: What are the differences?

Preact: A fast 3k React alternative. 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); React Native for Windows: Build native Windows apps with React. Adds support for the Windows 10 SDK, which allows you to build apps for all devices supported by Windows 10 including PCs, tablets, 2-in-1s, Xbox, Mixed reality devices etc.

Preact and React Native for Windows can be primarily classified as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.

Preact and React Native for Windows are both open source tools. It seems that Preact with 23.1K GitHub stars and 1.21K forks on GitHub has more adoption than React Native for Windows with 9.52K GitHub stars and 703 GitHub forks.

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Advice on Preact, React Native for Windows

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

Preact	React Native for Windows
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).	Adds support for the Windows 10 SDK, which allows you to build apps for all devices supported by Windows 10 including PCs, tablets, 2-in-1s, Xbox, Mixed reality devices etc.
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 17.1K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 1.2K
Stacks 1.1K	Stacks 6
Followers 292	Followers 29
Votes 28	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 15 Lightweight 5 Drop-in replacement for React 4 Performance 3 Props/state passed to render 1 ES6 class components	No community feedback yet
Integrations
React	C# React Native React Visual Studio

What are some alternatives to Preact, React Native for Windows?

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.

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.

Flux

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Famo.us

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Riot

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Marko

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