next.js/examples/using-preact

Hello World example

How to use

Download the example (or clone the repo)[https://github.com/zeit/next.js.git]:

curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/master | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-master/examples/using-preact
cd using-preact

Install it and run:

npm install
npm run dev

Deploy it to the cloud with now (download)

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The idea behind the example

This example uses Preact instead of React. It's a React like UI framework which fast and small. Here we've customized Next.js to use Preact instead of React.

Here's how we did it:

• Create .babelrc file with es2015 and react presets. This allow us to get rid of the hard coded React dependency for core Next.js modules.
• Use next.config.js to customize our webpack config to support preact-compat