We Need to Talk about Preact
summary
Claims that Preact is a 3 kilobyte alternative to React with a lean implementation and real-world adoption (Uber, Financial Times, Pepsi) and a compatibility layer preact-compat that lets React components run unchanged. Benchmarks show a surprising gap — a 100-item render completes in ~58ms vs ~500ms in one Chrome test — and a CLI demo that scaffolds apps, a router with different props, and an Angular+component integration that actually works (messy but functional). Missing bits and event/shim caveats are spelled out.
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:38About Sara
- 1:06Portugal
- 1:25Preact
- 1:47Preact Overview
- 2:09What is Preact
- 3:18Preact is production ready
- 3:28Its used by Uber
- 3:43Its used by Financial Times
- 4:17Why you should use Preact
- 7:02Preact Slack
- 9:42React
- 10:53React vs React
- 11:19React Compatibility
- 11:54Preact Compact
- 13:13Whats Included
- 13:24Functional Components
- 13:39Virtual Dumb Dipping
- 13:52Props
- 14:09React Component
- 15:06Implicit Return
- 16:07DOM Updates
- 16:59Children
- 17:46Browser Support
- 18:29Demo
- 20:25Preact Hyper
- 21:26Preact App
- 23:00Profile
- 23:40Component
