Essential React vs Inferno vs Preact

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Essential React

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Inferno

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Preact

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Decisions about Essential React, Inferno, and Preact
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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.

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Pros of Essential React
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      React-like api
    • 4
      Faster than React
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      Compatibility package for existing React apps
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      Smaller bundles
    • 3
      Faster than Angular
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      Faster than Vue
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      Lightweight
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      Drop-in replacement for React
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      Props/state passed to render
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      Performance
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      ES6 class components

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    What is Essential React?

    A minimal skeleton for building testable React apps using ES6.

    What is Inferno?

    Inferno is an isomorphic library for building high-performance user interfaces, which is crucial when targeting mobile devices. Unlike typical virtual DOM libraries like React, Mithril, Virtual-dom, Snabbdom and Om, Inferno uses techniques to separate static and dynamic content. This allows Inferno to only "diff" renders that have dynamic values.

    What is Preact?

    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).

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