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Reactless Ts

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Updated: 12 Sep 2025
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A handy production-ready template for rapidly frontend development that you've often dreamed of. Small, but with full backward compatibility to all of React.js ecosystem, but without its overhead!

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Overview:

Reactless.ts is a production-ready template for rapid frontend development. It includes the Preact framework with TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Headless UI visual frameworks, and the Vite frontend tooling. It offers full backward compatibility with the React.js ecosystem but without the overhead.

Features:

  • Preact framework for faster and lightweight rendering.
  • TypeScript for static type checking and improved code quality.
  • Tailwind CSS for rapid UI development.
  • Headless UI visual frameworks for building accessible and customizable UI components.
  • Vite for fast and efficient development and bundling.

Installation:

To install Reactless.ts, make sure you have Node.js installed (version 12.x or higher). Follow these steps:

  1. Install the degit tool by running the following command:
npm install -g degit
  1. Download the Reactless.ts template by running the following command:
degit truewebartisans/reactless-ts my-app

Replace my-app with the desired folder name for your application.

  1. Go to your app folder by running the following command:
cd my-app

Replace my-app with the folder name you chose in the previous step.

  1. Install dependencies and run the development server:
npm install
npm run dev

Summary:

Reactless.ts is a production-ready template that offers a lightweight alternative to React.js while maintaining compatibility with its ecosystem. It includes the Preact framework, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Headless UI, and the Vite frontend tooling. With Reactless.ts, developers can rapidly build frontend applications with improved performance and a reduced bundle size.