Using Pure Components
Pure Components do shallow equality checks in shouldComponentUpdate
by default. This is intended to prevent renders when neither props nor state have changed.
Recompose offers a Higher Order Component called pure
for this purpose and React added React.PureComponent
in v15.3.0.
Bad
export default (props, context) => {
// ... do expensive compute on props ...
return <SomeComponent {...props} />
}
Good
import { pure } from 'recompose';
// This won't be called when the props DONT change
export default pure((props, context) => {
// ... do expensive compute on props ...
return <SomeComponent someProp={props.someProp}/>
})
Better
// This is better mainly because it uses no external dependencies.
import { PureComponent } from 'react';
export default class Example extends PureComponent {
// This won't re-render when the props DONT change
render() {
// ... do expensive compute on props ...
return <SomeComponent someProp={props.someProp}/>
}
}
})