diff --git a/src/rval-react.ts b/src/rval-react.ts
index 0fb0f7f..e4de86b 100644
--- a/src/rval-react.ts
+++ b/src/rval-react.ts
@@ -1,17 +1,19 @@
-import { Observable, sub, isVal, isDrv } from "rval"
-import { useState, useEffect } from "react"
+import { Observable, sub, isVal, isDrv, effect } from "rval"
+import { useState, useEffect, useMemo } from "react"
 
 
 export function useVal<T>(observable: Observable<T>): T {
     if (!isVal(observable) && !isDrv(observable)) throw new Error("useval - expected val or drv")
-    const [val, updater] = useState(observable)
-    useEffect(() => {
-        const disposer = sub(observable, updater)
-        // observable has changed before effect was run first time, so trigger additional update
-        if (observable() !== val)
-        updater(observable())
-        return disposer
-    }, [observable])
+    let f; // forward ref to the updater function, so that we can subscribe first
+    // this implementation could be simpler if we would first used `useState`,
+    // and then set up the subscription in useEffect.
+    // The benefit of this setup, is that we set up the subscription first,
+    // so that observable is already 'hot' before we read it for the first time
+    // See: test "useVal - mimimum computations - 2"
+    const disposer = useMemo(() => sub(observable, x => f(x)), [observable])
+    const [val, updater] = useState(observable) // short-cut for initializer with fn: actually: () => observable()
+    f = updater
+    useEffect(() => disposer, [observable])
     return val
 }
 
@@ -23,3 +25,22 @@ export function useDrv() {
 export function render() {
 
 }
+
+export function RValRender({ children }) {
+    const [tick, setTick] = useState(0)
+    const { render, dispose } = useMemo(() => {
+        let render
+        const dispose = effect(
+            children,
+            (didChange, pull) => {
+                render = pull
+                if (didChange()) {
+                    setTick(tick + 1)
+                }
+            }
+        )
+        return { render, dispose }
+    }, [])
+    useEffect(() => dispose, [])
+    return render()
+}
diff --git a/tests/react.spec.tsx b/tests/react.spec.tsx
index 1caa76d..6ef0d10 100644
--- a/tests/react.spec.tsx
+++ b/tests/react.spec.tsx
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ test('useVal - mimimum computations - 1', async () => {
   expect(called).toBe(3)
 })
 
-test('useVal - mimimum computations - 1', async () => {
+test('useVal - mimimum computations - 2', async () => {
   const counter = val(0)
   let called = 0
   const doubler = drv(() => {