How Preact is used
Preact is a dependency in 10 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 22 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is React (2,023 projects). Projects that use it most often also use TypeScript (90.9%), Preact Vite preset (36.4%), Preact Signals (27.3%).
Preact popularity over time
Gid Score 67: downloads 93, use in agent projects 29, GitHub stars 73, downloads trend 63 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Preact
| TypeScript | 90.9% of Preact projects · 1.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| Preact Vite preset | 36.4% of Preact projects · 1128.7× more than average |
| Preact Signals | 27.3% of Preact projects · 846.5× more than average |
| Biome | 22.7% of Preact projects · 4.0× more than average |
| Astro | 22.7% of Preact projects · 12.2× more than average |
| Vite | 40.9% of Preact projects · 2.1× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 50.0% of Preact projects · 1.5× more than average |
| Testing Library | 27.3% of Preact projects · 2.7× more than average |
From all 22 projects in our scan that use Preact, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Preact as a dependency.
How Preact 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 Vite preset, Preact Signals.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @preactjs | 13 current sponsors |
|---|
GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.
Ways to fund Preact
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install preact |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (18), Python (2), Next.js (1), React Native / Expo (1) |
| Example projects | steve228uk/metro-mcp, jerelvelarde/world-monitor-copilotkit, IchimaruGin728/Gins-Blog, BasePaint/basepaint-mini, realchandan/knowledge-chatbot |
Alternatives to Preact
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Preact are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| React npm JavaScript library for building interactive user interfaces with components. |
94 | 2,023 (42.0%) | 116M | 251K | MIT |
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