Ryan Christian

Software Engineer

I'm most known for being a core member of preactjs, working on the core, build tooling, ancillary libraries, and the ecosystem. Author and co-author of way too many small libraries and apps, I'm an open source enthusiast with a passion for web performance and furthering the democratization of the web.

Featured Works

Featured Project

Preact

Fast 3kB alternative to React with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM

PreactJSFramework
Source code for PreactDocs and/or demo for Preact

Featured Project

Vite-Prerender-Plugin

Vite plugin for prerendering applications in every framework

VitePlugin
Source code for Vite-Prerender-Plugin

Featured Project

DepTree

Visualize the dependency tree of a package or project to see where you might want to optimize

NPMDependenciese18e
Source code for DepTreeDocs and/or demo for DepTree

Featured Project

React Colorful

The smallest color picker component for React & Preact apps

ReactComponent Library
Source code for React ColorfulDocs and/or demo for React Colorful

Featured Project

WMR

The tiny all-in-one development tool for modern web apps, in a single 2mb file with no dependencies

PreactCLIDev Tool
Source code for WMRDocs and/or demo for WMR

Featured Project

Scrumble

An agile tool that integrates multiple issue tracking systems into a single interface

PreactSpring BootPostgreSQLGitLab
Source code for Scrumble

Awards

Collection of Works

Microbundle

The zero-configuration bundler for tiny modules

NodeCLIDev Tool
Source code for Microbundle

Tailwind Grouping

Babel and bundler plugins for expanding TailwindCSS-like utility classes

BabelViteWMRRollup
Source code for Tailwind Grouping

Glint

A CLI tool written in Rust for authoring commits in the Conventional Style

RustCLIGit
Source code for GlintDocs and/or demo for Glint

Freetunnel

Create secure introspectable tunnels to your local device with a single command

CLINodeDevtool
Source code for Freetunnel

Parametric Equations

OpenGL application to visualize chaos theory mathematics through parametric equations plotted over time

RustOpenGL
Source code for Parametric Equations

Twind-Preact-ISO

(Slightly) opinionated Twind v1 integration for Preact-ISO

PreactTwindCSS-in-JS
Source code for Twind-Preact-ISO

Diff-Compare

Tool for comparing minified and escaped HTML, CSS, and JS/JSON strings.

Dev Tool
Source code for Diff-CompareDocs and/or demo for Diff-Compare

TS-Api-Toolkit

Tiny (1004B) browser HTTP library for easily making authenticated API requests

NodeHTTPJWT
Source code for TS-Api-Toolkit

GitHub Contribution Calendar API

Cloudflare worker used for retrieving the data that goes into forming the contribution calendar for a user on GitHub

GitHubWorkers
Source code for GitHub Contribution Calendar APIDocs and/or demo for GitHub Contribution Calendar API

Preact GitHub Calendar

A tiny (1.66kB) Preact component library used to display the contribution calendar of one's GitHub profile

PreactGitHub
Source code for Preact GitHub CalendarDocs and/or demo for Preact GitHub Calendar

Preact Hint

A super tiny (665B) Preact component library used to used to create tooltips, hover hints, and other floating information panes

Preact
Source code for Preact HintDocs and/or demo for Preact Hint

vim-package-info

Vim plugin to quickly view version info about the packages you use

VimPluginDevtool
Source code for vim-package-info