How Preact Signals is used
Preact Signals joined the catalog on its public numbers (1,565,032 downloads a week on npm and 4,500 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 7 public GitHub projects of our scan, 2 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Jotai (35 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Preact (85.7%), Preact Vite preset (71.4%), Playwright (JavaScript) (57.1%).
Preact Signals popularity over time
Gid Score 46: downloads 68, use in agent projects 12, GitHub stars 37, downloads trend 65 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Preact Signals
| Preact | 85.7% of Preact Signals projects · 532.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| Preact Vite preset | 71.4% of Preact Signals projects · 2217.1× more than average |
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 57.1% of Preact Signals projects · 3.3× more than average |
| Vite | 57.1% of Preact Signals projects · 2.9× more than average |
| TypeScript | 85.7% of Preact Signals projects · 1.6× more than average |
| Wrangler | 28.6% of Preact Signals projects · 10.5× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 57.1% of Preact Signals projects · 1.8× more than average |
| Vitest | 42.9% of Preact Signals projects · 2.1× more than average |
How Preact Signals 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 Vite preset.
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 Signals
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @preact/signals |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (6), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | realchandan/knowledge-chatbot |
Alternatives to Preact Signals
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Preact Signals are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jotai npm Minimal React state management with atoms as primitive building blocks for flexibility. |
66 | 35 (0.7%) | 3.8M | 21.3K | MIT |
| signal-utils npm Utilities for working with the JavaScript Signals proposal for reactive state management. |
29 | 32 (0.7%) | 197K | 120 | MIT |
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