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Use Preact instead of core WP React on the frontend

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    • saturn

      A large part of the size of our front end bundle is because we use a version of React which is shipped with WordPress for use in the post editor. The footprint is mostly because of the dependencies of WP's React (lodash, wp-polyfill), we could also use a much lighter variant of React (Preact) as our front end code is simple enough to allow that (i.e. doesn't depend on any React features not supported by Preact).

      Tasks:

      • Set up Preact for the front end and check if using it requires any changes to our front end code.

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            pvincent Pieter Vincent
            pvincent Pieter Vincent
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