# preactjs/preact

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

- Magnitude: 1.7 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 38,890 total · +2 stars today, ≈ 3 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Web & frontend · Language: JavaScript · License: MIT · Created: 2015-09-11 · Last push: 2026-09-27
- GitHub: https://github.com/preactjs/preact · Homepage: https://preactjs.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/preactjs/preact

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 2 stars so far today, about 3 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #9, +2 stars.
- About 50 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3,097
- Issues and pull requests: 4,897
- Watchers: 393
- Average over the last week: 3 per day
- Usual pace: 3 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: 11.0.0-rc.2 (2026-09-08)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-29 … 2026-09-27: 4, 4, 7, 0, 2, 1, 3, 4, 1, 6, 1, 3, 2, 2, 2, 5, 2, 1, 4, 5, 1, 3, 1, 4, 4, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #9, +2 stars

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Data as of 2026-09-27 16:22 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.