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facebook/react vs preactjs/preact

  • facebook/react

    Stars

    250,446

    First recorded star in 2013.

  • preactjs/preact

    Stars

    38,868

    First recorded star in 2015.

Star history overlay
291k STARS13 YR 4 MOfacebook/react291kpreactjs/preact42k

facebook/react: 290,819 stars on September 15, 2026. preactjs/preact: 42,414 stars on September 13, 2026.

Star history for facebook/react
DateStars
May 29, 2013168
July 29, 20131654
September 29, 20132047
November 28, 20132567
January 27, 20144394
March 28, 20145389
May 27, 20146897
July 26, 20148138
September 24, 20149532
November 23, 201411727
February 3, 201515614
April 4, 201520526
June 3, 201524148
August 2, 201527190
October 1, 201530549
November 30, 201534320
January 30, 201638150
March 30, 201642234
May 29, 201646145
July 28, 201650067
September 26, 201654111
November 25, 201659733
January 24, 201764551
March 25, 201770369
May 24, 201775840
July 23, 201781203
September 21, 201786671
November 20, 201793104
January 19, 201898535
March 20, 2018104345
June 1, 2018110869
July 31, 2018122715
September 29, 2018127996
November 28, 2018132785
January 27, 2019137431
March 28, 2019143149
May 27, 2019149026
July 26, 2019153475
September 24, 2019157593
November 23, 2019161786
January 21, 2020165503
March 21, 2020169192
May 20, 2020173660
July 19, 2020178199
September 18, 2020182860
November 17, 2020186885
January 16, 2021190901
March 17, 2021195033
May 19, 2021199062
July 18, 2021203000
October 1, 2021207839
December 3, 2021210651
February 1, 2022214971
April 2, 2022220062
June 1, 2022224391
July 31, 2022228488
September 29, 2022232766
November 28, 2022236312
January 27, 2023239719
March 28, 2023244147
May 27, 2023248219
July 26, 2023251678
September 24, 2023254977
November 23, 2023257861
January 22, 2024260583
March 22, 2024264148
May 21, 2024267774
July 20, 2024270788
September 18, 2024273676
November 17, 2024276305
January 28, 2025279448
March 29, 2025282259
May 28, 2025284661
July 27, 2025286333
September 25, 2025287648
November 29, 2025288598
January 28, 2026289479
March 29, 2026290137
May 30, 2026290443
September 15, 2026290819
Star history for preactjs/preact
DateStars
September 16, 20152
January 25, 2016168
March 11, 20162246
April 28, 20162486
June 16, 20162975
August 1, 20163446
September 16, 20163967
November 2, 20164727
December 18, 20166288
February 2, 20177536
March 30, 20178642
May 15, 20179595
July 1, 201711191
August 16, 201712257
October 1, 201716096
November 17, 201716953
January 2, 201817751
February 17, 201818587
April 5, 201819175
May 22, 201819728
July 7, 201820265
August 22, 201820791
October 8, 201821297
November 23, 201821811
January 8, 201922262
February 24, 201922726
April 11, 201923435
May 27, 201924012
July 13, 201924552
August 28, 201924972
October 23, 201925777
December 8, 201926334
January 23, 202026931
March 9, 202027364
April 25, 202027903
June 10, 202028355
July 27, 202028761
September 13, 202029164
October 29, 202029582
December 14, 202030153
January 30, 202130686
March 17, 202131094
May 2, 202131566
June 21, 202131923
August 6, 202132343
September 24, 202132692
November 18, 202133014
January 3, 202233340
February 18, 202233891
April 6, 202234250
June 1, 202234622
July 17, 202235174
September 2, 202235632
October 18, 202236133
December 3, 202236453
January 19, 202336741
March 6, 202337146
April 22, 202337435
June 8, 202337723
July 24, 202338014
September 8, 202338298
October 25, 202338547
December 10, 202338939
January 26, 202439230
March 13, 202439517
April 28, 202439751
June 13, 202439991
July 29, 202440248
September 14, 202440498
October 30, 202440777
December 25, 202441064
February 10, 202541286
March 28, 202541513
May 14, 202541718
July 1, 202541950
August 20, 202542070
October 18, 202542193
December 30, 202542269
March 6, 202642353
September 13, 202642414
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Repository health compared

Live analysis · unavailable data stays labelled

Popularity is only one axis. Compare technical scale, maintenance cadence, ownership resilience and change pressure against the same completed analysis that sits behind each report.

Reach

Popularity and real-world adoption

Signalfacebook/reactpreactjs/preact
GitHub starsCurrent public GitHub metadata total.Best result in this row: 250,44638,868
Stars gained · trailing 90dChange in the newest 90 days covered by each cached series.Best result in this row: +347+10
ForksCurrent public GitHub metadata total.Not availableNot available
Largest package audienceLargest resolved registry total; sources are shown explicitly.No resolved packageNo resolved package
Repository ageElapsed years since the GitHub creation timestamp.13 years11 years

Codebase

Size and technical center of gravity

Signalfacebook/reactpreactjs/preact
Dominant languageLargest share of analyzed code lines at current HEAD.Not availableNot available
Code linesAnalyzed source lines at current HEAD, excluding blanks and comments.Not availableNot available
Languages representedLanguages with non-zero files or line counts.Not availableNot available

Maintenance

Commit volume and recent operating cadence

Signalfacebook/reactpreactjs/preact
Repository commitsFull repository commit total reported by the analysis.Not availableNot available
Commits · trailing 90dCommit count in the newest 90 days covered by the repository analysis.Not availableNot available

Ownership

How broadly maintenance responsibility is distributed

Signalfacebook/reactpreactjs/preact
Bus factorFewest analyzed contributors carrying at least half the commits.Not availableNot available
Top contributor concentrationShare of attributed commits carried by the most active contributor.Not availableNot available

Change signals

Debt markers and fix pressure in frequently changed files

Signalfacebook/reactpreactjs/preact
Fix-labelled share · frequently changed filesFix-labelled commits divided by commits across the analyzed high-frequency file set.Not availableNot available
Recent TODO/FIXME movementLatest cumulative marker count and its change over the trailing 90 days.Not availableNot available

Both curves are drawn on shared axes. They are not drawn from a shared source: each series names its own below.

One axis, two sources

The overlay puts both repositories on one axis. It does not put them on one source: since July 2026 a stargazer-list series stops on a fixed date, while a series rebuilt from public archive events keeps receiving points. Each column below states its own reading.

How the star series for facebook/react and preactjs/preact were read
Fieldfacebook/reactpreactjs/preact
SourceHistorical star dataHistorical star data
CoverageCovers through September 15, 2026Covers through September 13, 2026
StateStill updatingStill updating

No row states how much of a history is missing. An archive series records star actions and not unstars, so it can exceed a repository's own star total, and a figure for the difference would be wrong exactly where it looks most precise.

Notes on this comparison

  • Which has more GitHub stars, facebook/react or preactjs/preact?

    GitHub reports 250,446 stars for facebook/react and 38,868 for preactjs/preact.

  • Do both star histories cover the same period?

    Not necessarily, and each chart names its own. facebook/react — Historical star data · Covers through September 15, 2026 · Still updating. preactjs/preact — Historical star data · Covers through September 13, 2026 · Still updating. Since July 2026 GitHub serves a repository's stargazer list only to its own admins and collaborators, so one series can stop on a fixed date while the other keeps flowing from public archive events.

  • How is this comparison computed?

    Star totals come from public repository metadata. The two curves are each repository's stored star series drawn on shared axes, from whichever source is named above. Repository-health figures are computed independently from each project's commit history.