React.createElement

Hi there! Question for @developit :

I’m considering to use preact because 3kb for the React API is just amazing. However, react’s ecosystem has a lot more tools at the moment especially react-hot-loader and enzyme for testing, which are not compatible with preact or preact-compat.

In order to benefit from both of both worlds, I’m importing react and react-dom in the code, use original react in development, and use an alias on preact when really making the bundle. This way I realized that createElement was simply not in preact, thus making it not a drop-in replacement of react. I think this is really unfortunate, in my case, and as this could have encouraged people taking advantage of preact.

Don’t you think exporting createElement as an alias of h would be good?

I considered the .babelrc jsx pragma solution but this is really inconvenient as I’d like to manage choosing react or preact from my webpack configs.

NB: if you have better options to suggest me in terms of enzyme/hot-loader tooling I’m definitely interested 😃

[ctrlplusb]

I have created a simple example of how to use native HMR of webpack 2 with preact/preact-compat.

https://github.com/ctrlplusb/preact-compat-hmr

[developit]

I think we can finally close this since import { createElement } from 'preact/aliases' is now officially a thing in 6.0.0 (beta)!