preactjs/preact

⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM.

Web & frontendJavaScript#preact#jsx#react#virtual-dom#components

1.7 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 27, 2026, 15:40 UTC.

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About the project

A lightweight JavaScript UI library: a ~4kB React alternative with the same modern API, JSX, Virtual DOM, hooks and SSR.

Useful for

Build a small interactive widget or landing page without a heavy React bundle
Swap React for Preact via preact/compat in an existing project
Render pages server-side with SSR and hydrate them on the client

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

2 stars so far today, about 3 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #9, +2 stars.
About 52 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 38,890
Today: 2 · ≈ 3 by evening
Forks: 3,090
Issues and pull requests: 4,897
Watchers: 393
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Latest release: 11.0.0-rc.2 · September 8, 2026
Created: September 11, 2015
Last push: September 27, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 27, 2026GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #9, +2 stars

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