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Muhammad
Muhammad

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I Love Dev.to Frontend. Was this made using React.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

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 πŸ˜‰

@ben wrote two posts about it, in case you want to dig deeper:

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rhymes

They are using Preact: dev.to/ben/why-we-went-with-preact...

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Ben Halpern

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.

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Jasper Furniss • Edited

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

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Muhammad

Thanks for mentioning the awesome tool

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Think your gut was right this time. The app is pretty on point, too, though.

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Jasper Furniss

Awesome, andy! Gotta learn to trust my instinct more. :) Thanks for making and working on a super product!