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facebook/react vs preactjs/preact

  • facebook/react

    Stars

    250,483

    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: 290,827 stars on September 16, 2026. preactjs/preact: 42,416 stars on September 16, 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 22, 2020165563
March 22, 2020169255
May 21, 2020173744
July 20, 2020178290
September 19, 2020182907
November 18, 2020186978
January 17, 2021190963
March 18, 2021195136
May 20, 2021199113
July 19, 2021203074
October 2, 2021207896
December 4, 2021210709
February 2, 2022215040
April 3, 2022220124
June 2, 2022224461
August 1, 2022228544
September 30, 2022232824
November 29, 2022236377
January 28, 2023239781
March 29, 2023244218
May 28, 2023248272
July 27, 2023251747
September 25, 2023255031
November 24, 2023257903
January 23, 2024260637
March 23, 2024264194
May 22, 2024267841
July 21, 2024270833
September 19, 2024273727
November 18, 2024276340
January 29, 2025279501
March 30, 2025282315
May 29, 2025284692
July 28, 2025286360
September 26, 2025287675
November 30, 2025288607
January 29, 2026289488
March 30, 2026290140
May 31, 2026290445
September 16, 2026290827
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 6, 201819184
May 22, 201819728
July 7, 201820265
August 23, 201820803
October 8, 201821297
November 23, 201821811
January 9, 201922274
February 24, 201922726
April 11, 201923435
May 28, 201924026
July 13, 201924552
August 28, 201924972
October 23, 201925777
December 8, 201926334
January 24, 202026946
March 10, 202027380
April 25, 202027903
June 11, 202028360
July 28, 202028769
September 13, 202029164
October 30, 202029584
December 15, 202030167
January 30, 202130686
March 17, 202131094
May 3, 202131578
June 21, 202131923
August 6, 202132343
September 25, 202132697
November 18, 202133014
January 3, 202233340
February 19, 202233895
April 6, 202234250
June 2, 202234627
July 18, 202235193
September 2, 202235632
October 19, 202236139
December 4, 202236459
January 19, 202336741
March 7, 202337152
April 23, 202337440
June 8, 202337723
July 25, 202338021
September 9, 202338300
October 25, 202338547
December 11, 202338945
January 27, 202439234
March 13, 202439517
April 29, 202439754
June 14, 202439994
July 30, 202440253
September 15, 202440503
October 31, 202440784
December 26, 202441071
February 11, 202541294
March 29, 202541518
May 15, 202541723
July 2, 202541951
August 21, 202542075
October 19, 202542195
December 31, 202542271
March 7, 202642354
September 16, 202642416
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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: 250,48338,868
Stars gained · trailing 90dChange in the newest 90 days covered by each cached series.Best result in this row: +354+11
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 16, 2026Covers through September 16, 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 250,483 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 16, 2026 · Still updating. preactjs/preact — Historical star data · Covers through September 16, 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.