use-needed-state

It looks the same as regualr useState, but it'll watch what parts of state were actually used during the render.

So even if you'll update using 'setState', but parts used during the render did not change (are equal) - it'll skip re-render

example

We'll create simple component with state that is object with 2 values.

One is 'loggedUserName' which is some string, and another is 'showLoggedUserInfo' which is boolean indicating if we want to show logged user name or no.

If 'showLoggedUserInfo' is false - we're not even accessing user name during the render.

It means that when user name will change while we're not showing it - we don't have to re-render and this is exactly what will happen.

import React from 'react';
import { useNeededState } from 'use-needed-state';

interface AppInfo {
  loggedUserName: string;
  showLoggedUserInfo: boolean;
}

function SomeComponent() {
  /**
   * Initialize state the same way as with `useState`
   */
  const [appInfo, setAppInfo] = useNeededState<AppInfo>({
    // name of our user
    loggedUserName: 'Bob',
    // indicator telling if we want to show logged user name
    showLoggedUserInfo: false,
  });

  /**
   * If `showLoggedUserInfo` is false - we'll not even use
   * logged user name during the render, so we "dont care" what it is
   * It means that if loggedUserName will change - we don't have to
   * re-render as it'll not impact the result of rendering
   */
  if (!appInfo.showLoggedUserInfo) {
    return (
      <div>
        Hello!
        {/* if we'll change user name while `showLoggedUserInfo` is false - component will not re-render */}
        <button onClick={changeUserName}>Change user name</button>
        <button onClick={toggleShowUserInfo}>Toggle show user info</button>
      </div>
    );
  }

  /**
   * If showLoggedUserInfo is true - we're actually accessing user name
   * so now component will re-render if it's changed in the state
   */
  return <div>Hello, {appInfo.loggedUserName}!</div>;

  function changeUserName() {
    const newName = window.prompt('New name');

    setAppInfo((state) => {
      return { ...state, loggedUserName: newName };
    });
  }

  function toggleShowUserInfo() {
    setAppInfo((state) => {
      return { ...state, showLoggedUserInfo: !state.showLoggedUserInfo };
    });
  }
}