explore/topics/preact/index.md

aliases	topic	logo	display_name	short_description	related	released	github_url	url
preactjs, preact-js	preact	preact.png	Preact.js	Preact.js is a lightweight React alternative with the same API.	react, virtual-dom, hmr, jsx, ssr	November 14, 2015	https://github.com/preactjs/preact	https://preactjs.com/

Preact.js is a lightweight React alternative with the same API.

Similarities to React

• ES6 Class, hooks, and Functional Components
• Compatibility via a simple preact/compat alias
• JSX, VDOM, DevTools, HMR, SSR.
• Cross-browser compatibility
• Transparent asynchronous rendering with a pluggable scheduler

Differences from React

• Works in the browser without any transpilation steps
• Syntactic sugar
  • props, state and context are passed to render()
  • Standard HTML attributes like class and for can be used instead of className and htmlFor