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Preact vs React Engine: 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 Engine: A react render engine for Universal (previously Isomorphic) JavaScript apps written with express, by PayPal. a composite render engine for universal (isomorphic) express apps to render both plain react views and react-router views.
Preact and React Engine belong to "Javascript UI Libraries" category of the tech stack.
Preact and React Engine are both open source tools. Preact with 23.1K GitHub stars and 1.2K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than React Engine with 1.46K GitHub stars and 145 GitHub forks.
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.
Pros of Preact
- Lightweight15
- Drop-in replacement for React5
- Performance4
- Props/state passed to render3
- ES6 class components1
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