Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Preact
Fast React alternative with the same ES6 API
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Preact launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Faster user-land reimplementations for several common builtin native JavaScript functions. - codemix/fast.js
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Full reactivity JS/TS framework. Lightweight replacement of React + MobX + React Router. Very small and fast !! - PxyUp/Revact
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Next.js 16▲417Performance results of AI coding agents on Next.js
Oct 2025 · nextjs.org · its alternatives →
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Hi! I made a React compatibility library for a Virtual DOM library (https://github.com/aidenybai/million). The idea is to have much faster rendering (a compiler optimizes virtual DOM beforehand) while ensuring the same developer experience React provides. This is very, VERY early stage, so be prepared for weird bugs / plugin incompatibility / etc. If you have any suggestions, I'd be more than happy if you replied in a comment with it! You can spin up the demo here >> https://stackblitz.com/github/aidenybai/million-react-compat
2022 · its alternatives →
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React Native▲362Build native mobile experiences with Javascript
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Reapp▲89A new way to build hybrid apps with React, Webpack, and JS.
2015 · reapp.io · its alternatives →
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UI elements in ready-to-use components for React
2017 · coolsymbol.now · its alternatives →
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Rapid React▲103A light weight CLI tool for rapid scaffolding of React apps
2021 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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React-Static▲152A progressive static-site framework for React!
2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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A blazing fast React alternative, compatible with IE8 and React 16. - NervJS/nerv
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · producthunt.com · its alternatives →
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An extremely fast virtual DOM - React up to 70% faster
2023 · millionjs.org · its alternatives →
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Launch your SaaS product faster on Web, iOS and Android
2023 · reactnativeboilerplate.com · its alternatives →
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In brief: I'm Aiden, 18, and have spent the past 2 years of high school working on Million.js, an open source React alternative with 11K stars on GitHub and hundreds of thousands of npm downloads. Recently, I released automatic mode, which detects slow React components and automatically optimizes the reconciliation phase. It's still in beta but chugging along. It's around 70% faster than React on the JS Framework Benchmark and you can see how I did it here: https://million.dev/blog/virtual-dom Interested? Check it out here: https://million.dev
2023 · its alternatives →
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Create lightning fast web apps with native power
2018 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Serverless SaaS Boilerplate for building faster with Next.js and Node.js on AWS. React SaaS Starter kit with Express.js including authentication, payment and teams.
2021 · nextlessjs.com · its alternatives →
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Painless web apps with React, JSX, Redux, and GraphQL
2018 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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