How Preact Vite preset is used
Preact Vite preset joined the catalog on its public numbers (446,870 downloads a week on npm and 311 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 9 public GitHub projects of our scan, 2 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Preact (88.9%), Vite (88.9%), Preact Signals (55.6%).
Preact Vite preset popularity over time
Gid Score 34: downloads 56, use in agent projects 16, GitHub stars 0, downloads trend 70 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Preact Vite preset
| Preact | 88.9% of Preact Vite preset projects · 551.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| Vite | 88.9% of Preact Vite preset projects · 4.5× more than average |
| Preact Signals | 55.6% of Preact Vite preset projects · 1724.4× more than average |
| TypeScript | 88.9% of Preact Vite preset projects · 1.6× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 66.7% of Preact Vite preset projects · 2.0× more than average |
| Vitest | 44.4% of Preact Vite preset projects · 2.2× more than average |
| Phaser | 22.2% of Preact Vite preset projects · 115.0× more than average |
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 33.3% of Preact Vite preset projects · 2.0× more than average |
How Preact Vite preset is funded
Open Collective: Preact
| Received, last 12 months | $32,572 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $35,928 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $200,976 |
| Raised since the start | $303,627 · $102,651 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $2,654 · $2,928 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -8% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 25 |
Top company backers all time, 48 companies in total
| loveholidays | $36,000 since Oct 2023 |
|---|---|
| trivago | $23,991 since Jan 2021 |
| Adyen NV (Netherlands) | $10,800 since Nov 2023 |
| Webflow | $6,500 since Oct 2017 |
| Open Source Collective org (deprecated) | $5,041 since Jul 2017 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Nov 2016. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 2 more tools in our catalog: Preact, Preact Signals.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @preactjs | 13 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.
Ways to fund Preact Vite preset
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @preact/preset-vite |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (9) |
| Example projects | BasePaint/basepaint-mini, realchandan/knowledge-chatbot, aesthezel/venezuela-juega |
Alternatives to Preact Vite preset
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Build tools and bundlers does the same job as Preact Vite preset: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
More in Build tools and bundlers: Vite Turborepo esbuild Babel (JavaScript) Laravel Vite Plugin React Compiler Babel Plugin Nx vite-tsconfig-paths