I've been working with react and react native for a while and there's a library that caught my attention: Preact. I learned it (that being a react developer was not difficult), I did some PWA's to practice (Copying medium-sized projects that I've done in the past) and, if you know what Preact is, it goes without saying my impression. It seems incredible to me. My question is: is there a way to work with react native using Preact? Maybe with preact-compat?
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Not out of the box, no. See this discussion from GitHub
The short answer is: use a native wrapper that exposes DOM.
The long answer is that there are woefully few options for this. Some time ago, I had begun building a DOM interface to React Native, but I have no experience with React Native whatsoever and I'm likely not the best person to do that implementation.
I do know that folks have used Preact with NativeScript and had some success: NativeScript doesn't expose a Web-compatible DOM, but its UI primitives are still quite easily mapped to DOM primitives:
- https://github.com/staydecent/nativescript-preact
- https://github.com/NathanaelA/nativescript-dom/blob/master/src/dom.js
It would also be relatively easy to implement a nativescript-preact using the source of nativescript-vue, which implements a simple DOM on top of NativeScript's UI components that Vue then renders to: https://github.com/nativescript-vue/nativescript-vue/tree/master/platform/nativescript
It's also worth noting that preact-compat is the legacy package, used for Preact 8.x and prior. preact/compat is where you'd get compat going forward.
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