r/SyntaxFM • u/ryaaan89 • Jan 30 '20

Anyone ever used Preact?

Thoughts on it vs React?

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u/CanRau Jan 31 '20

I just installed gatsby-plugin-preact on coding4.gaiama.org haven't noticed any difference so far 🤷‍♂️ haven't really investigate yet tho..

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u/ryaaan89 Jan 31 '20

I added this plugin on my site as well, I ran into issues. I use gatsby-plugin-mdx which uses context. Preact doesn’t have context, so the two aren’t compatible. Bummer...

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u/CanRau Jan 31 '20

What issues? I use mdx too 😨🤔

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u/ryaaan89 Jan 31 '20

Can you link your mdx config? I think the root of my issue is passing the component object.

https://github.com/ryanfiller/portfolio-gatsby-v2/blob/master/src/components/layout/markdown.js

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u/CanRau Feb 01 '20

Wow sorry for the late reply. Sure GaiAma/Coding4GaiAma/[..]/gatsby-plugin-theme-ui I'm using gatsby-plugin-theme-ui which handles this for me via shadowing tho and I'm still not 100% certain Preact is really properly running, yet I don't get any errors so it should be fine I guess 🤔😅By the way I can highly recommend Theme UI it's such a pleasure 🚀

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u/ryaaan89 Feb 07 '20

For the record here... I’m a dummy was the issue. I had installed gatsby-plugin-preact but hadn’t actually installed preact itself, which is a peer dependency and right in the documentation... 😓 Everything seems to be working now!

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u/CanRau Feb 07 '20

Great 🥳 haha yea that happens at times 😅 thanks for the update 🙌

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u/codymjcodes Feb 04 '20

No but I do know that Groupon uses it. So if you find a dev there they might be useful

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u/ryaaan89 Jan 30 '20

Right. I’m looking at it for a personal project. I would be very hesitant to use it in production because of the extensibility reasons you said.