Semantic-ui-react: Preact?

[ForsakenHarmony]

https://preactjs.com/

[levithomason]

Is this an issue?

[ForsakenHarmony]

not really, but preact support would be nice

[levithomason]

Got it, I'd certainly be willing to merge PRs for increased compatibility. I'm not a Preact user so I'm not sure of the issues.

[ForsakenHarmony]

might be a bad idea after all, a fork would probably be a better idea

the only way to do this would be building twice

[levithomason]

If the changes don't bring negative side effects, we can make them here. Though, I could see issues with regressions since I'm not sure how we'd test for Preact compatibility when shipping new features and fixes.

[ForsakenHarmony]

https://preactjs.com/guide/switching-to-preact

you basically have to replace every import of react/react-dom or alias it, but idk about the other libraries used

[levithomason]

Yep, this would need some investigation on a PR to figure out how to solve. I'm sure there will be lots of broken features. In a library like ours, we use many things that I'm betting are not supported, like event.nativeEvent.stopImmediatePropagation() or ReactDOM.unstable_renderSubtreeIntoContainer().

Again, I'd be willing to look over and merge PRs from the community on increasing compatibility with other libraries 👍

[developit]

I think preact-compat just needs to alias .nativeEvent there. We have the other API for sure.

[levithomason]

Thanks for the clarification and correction on that. I'm on the look out for any PRs.

[WoLfulus]

Sorry to comment on a very old issue, but does this work today? @levithomason

[levithomason]

No idea, I've never used Preact.

@davezuko may possibly have some insight? I think he may have converted some SUIR powered apps to Preact recently.

[davezuko]

Most of this should be handled by preact-compat without any work from SUIR itself. I think it's a far better tradeoff to include the extra ~2kb for the compat layer than to fork SUIR specifically for Preact.

I, however, defer to @developit since he maintains Preact :P.

[redstrike]

@ForsakenHarmony Haven't you tried to use SUIR with preact-compat?
I want to use SUIR without introducing React into the runtime bundle.
However, not sure if we can get rid of React or preact-compat just act as a compatible layer on the top of React's base. Sr, I didn't notice that preact-compat has a standalone repo with its documentation. And we can get rid of the heavy React with Preact 😍

@levithomason @davezuko SUIR is an awesome project with impressive documentation. I think we shouldn't let it be locked in React's big empire. Will you plan to add some supports or official docs for Preact users?

[brianespinosa]

@redstrike if you would like to add an Example Project to the SUIR documentation that shows how a SUIR project would be configured with preact and preact-compat, PRs are definitely welcome.

[levithomason]

Will you plan to add some supports or official docs for Preact users?

Will I specifically? No, as I have no need or incentive for Preact. However, I am in full support of a community effort to accomplish this and will help move things along as much as I can.