Discover the story behind daily.dev's transition from Preact to React for frontend development. This post explores the challenges, solutions, and benefits of migrating to React, enhancing our web app's performance and development experience.

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daily.dev migrated from Preact to React in order to resolve development issues and improve performance. The move allowed for better compatibility with Next.js, enhanced development experience, and prepared the platform for future technological advancements. The migration was successful and enabled a healthier future for all daily.dev apps.

Moving back to React

This is one thing that worries me about switching from React itself.
All people tout every X new web framework as the best framework now because of Y performance and Z improvement yet none have the same stability as react.
Then people tell me svelte is amazing yet my issue is when I looked at how you write code in it… it looks as if were going back to poorer templating. It looked more as if im writing pure html than actual components.

That’s great for faster onboarding

I guess it’s also easier to onboard new devs when you use widely used technologies
The problem with Next.js is that you are kind of vendor-locked with Vercel if you want to get all benefits from the framework.
It’s ok for startups but once you start growing they become expensive, and if you don’t care in advance there will be a point that it will be too late to realize you are vendor-locked, and then you have to rewrite many things to move to another platform.