Preact.js

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

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  <li><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">props</code>, <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">state</code> and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">context</code> are passed to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">render()</code></li>

  <li>Standard HTML attributes like <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">class</code> and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">for</code> can be used instead of <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">className</code> and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">htmlFor</code></li>