12 engineers on Hacker News describe using Preact first-hand: 6 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Performance is noticeably better than with preact.”
regret · production · molf · 2026-06-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using Preact for my embedded IoT front-end and the complex web app it compiles is less than 50KB total gzipped.”
endorse · production · leptons · 2024-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Preact on an entirely client-side SPA with a simple RPC-like backend all in typescript for 5 years or so.”
endorse · production · 5 yr · christophilus · 2024-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the biggest perf improvement we realized was when we switched from React to Preact. There were some issues to iron out but it was okay”
endorse · production · vijaybritto · 2022-09-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using preact with parcel for over half a year now and it has been a blast!”
endorse · personal · 0.5 yr · timdaub · 2020-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using preact with tsx and inline styles... The simplicity is just amazing.”
endorse · personal · nojvek · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm also very happy with Preact.”
endorse · personal · mercer · 2016-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used Preact and one of the React DND style libraries (don't recall which now).”
neutral · personal · hmeh · 2024-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used Preact in production, but if you're using modern Next.js with tree-shaking and don't care about bundle size, you can ignore Preact entirely.”
neutral · production · smt88 · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using preact/react since 2016”
neutral · personal · 6 yr · devmunchies · 2022-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's just built by the Preact team and we use Preact in the docs.”
neutral · production · developit · 2020-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“everything else is a Preact app so I spend most time on the Preact/Webpack stack.”
neutral · production · devmunchies · 2020-06-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?