Muhammad Posted on Feb 21, 2018      I Love Dev.to Frontend. Was this made using React. #discuss Top comments (7) Subscribe Personal Trusted User Create template Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Submit Preview Dismiss Collapse Expand  Andy Zhao (he/him) Andy Zhao (he/him) Andy Zhao (he/him) Follow uh oh where'd my bio go! Education Actualize Coding Bootcamp Joined Mar 28, 2017 • Feb 21 '18 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide We use Preact, but right now it's pretty much being used for the onboarding process only. We're mostly a Ruby on Rails app, believe it or not 😉 @ben wrote two posts about it, in case you want to dig deeper: The dev.to tech stack Ben Halpern #ourstack#meta Making dev.to insanely fast Ben Halpern #webperf#meta Collapse Expand  rhymes rhymes rhymes Follow Such software as dreams are made on. I mostly rant about performance, unnecessary complexity, privacy and data collection. Joined Feb 2, 2017 • Feb 21 '18 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide They are using Preact: dev.to/ben/why-we-went-with-preact... Collapse Expand  Ben Halpern Ben Halpern Ben Halpern Follow A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny. Email ben@forem.com Location NY Education Mount Allison University Pronouns He/him Work Co-founder at Forem Joined Dec 27, 2015 • Feb 22 '18 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide So, as others have mentioned, we do use Preact, but right now we only use it for a few specific cases. 90% of the frontend is still vanilla JS. Collapse Expand  Jasper Furniss Jasper Furniss Jasper Furniss Follow Eyes of a designer. Hands of a developer. Location Greenville, SC Education B.A., M.A., and a coding school called The Iron Yard Work UX Engineer at Power Home Remodeling Joined Nov 20, 2017 • Feb 21 '18 • Edited on Feb 21 • Edited Dropdown menu Copy link Hide From a quick scan in the chrome console... I was going to say no. BUT... the beauty of a tool called Wappalyzer.com let's you see what tools the website is using. According to it.... yes it does use React.js Collapse Expand  Muhammad Muhammad Muhammad Follow Developer | I write mostly at https://muhammadraza.me/ Email muhammadraza0047@gmail.com Location New York Education Computer Science Joined Nov 3, 2017 • Feb 21 '18 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide Thanks for mentioning the awesome tool Collapse Expand  Andy Zhao (he/him) Andy Zhao (he/him) Andy Zhao (he/him) Follow uh oh where'd my bio go! Education Actualize Coding Bootcamp Joined Mar 28, 2017 • Feb 21 '18 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide Think your gut was right this time. The app is pretty on point, too, though. Collapse Expand  Jasper Furniss Jasper Furniss Jasper Furniss Follow Eyes of a designer. Hands of a developer. Location Greenville, SC Education B.A., M.A., and a coding school called The Iron Yard Work UX Engineer at Power Home Remodeling Joined Nov 20, 2017 • Feb 24 '18 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide Awesome, andy! Gotta learn to trust my instinct more. :) Thanks for making and working on a super product! Code of Conduct • Report abuse Are you sure you want to hide this comment? It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. Hide child comments as well Confirm For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
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We use Preact, but right now it's pretty much being used for the onboarding process only. We're mostly a Ruby on Rails app, believe it or not 😉
@ben wrote two posts about it, in case you want to dig deeper:
The dev.to tech stack
Ben Halpern
Making dev.to insanely fast
Ben Halpern
They are using Preact: dev.to/ben/why-we-went-with-preact...
So, as others have mentioned, we do use Preact, but right now we only use it for a few specific cases. 90% of the frontend is still vanilla JS.
From a quick scan in the chrome console... I was going to say no.
BUT... the beauty of a tool called Wappalyzer.com let's you see what tools the website is using.
According to it.... yes it does use React.js
Thanks for mentioning the awesome tool
Think your gut was right this time. The app is pretty on point, too, though.
Awesome, andy! Gotta learn to trust my instinct more. :) Thanks for making and working on a super product!