Support passive event listeners
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Description
React is trying to figure out how to handle this too, in https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/6436 . Would love to see this added in somehow in preact. It's a fantastic capability for battling jank, and keeping things interactive and buttery smooth.
Explainer doc on passive event listeners: https://github.com/WICG/EventListenerOptions/blob/gh-pages/explainer.md
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start with the linked WICG passive event listener explainer and React issue, then locate Preact's event listener integration; done means passive listeners are supported without breaking existing event behavior and are covered by appropriate tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100