eslint-plugin-react-usememo

Enforce that functions or complex objects that can generate unecessary renders or side-effects are wrapped in useMemo or useCallback, allow for devs to enforce that functional components be wrapped in memo programatically, and that all props and deps are wrapped in useMemo/useCallback; The intended outcome is that component's tree and/or expensive lifecycles (e.g. React Native's FlatLists, useEffect, useMemo, etc) only re-calculate or render again when really necessary, controlling expensive expressions and bringing out the best scalability and performance that your application can get.

Rationale

React Native's own docs state how it's important to use static or memoized as props for complex children (FlatList on that case), that applies even more broadly when we are talking about custom components (the Components you've created), it might not seem necessary at first but you'll be making a bet that the component in question will never grow to use memo or those props in hooks (i.e. useEffect, useMemo, useCallback), you'll only notice once your solution starts freezing and dropping frames, that's why using the require-usememo rule is recommended.

Installation

yarn add @michael1997/eslint-plugin-react-usememo --dev

or

npm install @michael1997/eslint-plugin-react-usememo --save-dev

Usage

To enable the plugin add the following to the plugin property your eslintrc file:

"plugins": ["@michael1997/react-usememo"],

Then enable any rules as you like, example:

"rules": {
    "@michael1997/react-usememo/require-usememo": ["warn"],
},

Rules

require-usememo Recommended

Requires complex values (objects, arrays, functions, and JSX) that get passed props or referenced as a hook dependency to be wrapped in React.useMemo() or React.useCallback().

Options:

• {strict: true}: Fails even in cases where it is difficult to determine if the value in question is a primitive (string or number) or a complex value (object, array, etc.).

Incorrect

function Component() {

  const [data, setData] = useState([]);
  
  
  // This will be redeclared each render
  function renderItem({ item }) {
    return (<Text>item.name</Text>);
  }

  // Data isn't redeclared each ender but `[]` is
  return (<FlatList renderItem={renderItem} data={data ?? []} />);
}

Incorrect (class component)

class Component() {

  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      data: undefined,
      propDrivenData: props.,
    };
  }
  
  
  // This will NOT be redeclared each render
  getItemName(item) {
    return item.name;
  }

  render() {
    // This function will be redeclared each render
    function renderItem({ item }) {
      return (<Text>{this.getItemName(item)}</Text>);
    }

    // Data isn't redeclared each ender but [] is
    // Extradata has a exponential complexity (will iterate the entire array for each render, could render once or several times in a second)
    // Outcome will be that any new render on this component will cause the entire FlatList to render again, including children components, even if the data hasn't changed.
    return (<FlatList
      renderItem={renderItem}
      data={data ?? []} 
      extraData={dataArray.filter(id => !!id)}
    />);
  }
}

In the previous example there are two issues, a function and a object that will be dynamically redeclared each time the component renders, which will cause FlatList to keep re-rendering even when the input data hasn't changed.

Correct

// Has no dynamic dependencies therefore should be static, will be declared only once.
function renderItem({ item }) {
  return <Text>item.name</Text>;
}

const EMPTY_ARRAY = [];

function Component() {

  const [data, setData] = useState(EMPTY_ARRAY);
  
  // Will only render again if data changes
  return (<FlatList renderItem={renderItem} data={data ?? EMPTY_ARRAY} />);
}

Correct (class component)

// Static therefore is only declared once
const EMPTY_ARRAY = [];

class Component() {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      data: undefined,
      propDrivenData: props.dataArray.filter(id => !!id),
    };
  }
  
  // Properly regenerate state driven data only when props change instead of during each render
  static getDerivedStateFromProps(props) {
    if (props.propDrivenData !== this.props.propDrivenData) {
      return {
        propDrivenData: props.dataArray.filter(id => !!id),
      };
    }
    return null;
  }

  // Will be declared only once.
  getItemName({item}) {
    const { data } = this.state;
    const dataLength = data ? data.length : 0;
    return (<Text>{item.name} {dataLength}</Text>);
  }

  render() {
    const { data } = this.state;
    // Will only cause a new render if data changes
    return (<FlatList renderItem={this.renderItem} data={data ?? EMPTY_ARRAY} />);
  }
}

Correct

const EMPTY_ARRAY = [];

function Component() {
  const [data, setData] = useState(EMPTY_ARRAY);
  const [isEditing, setIsEditing] = useState(false);

  // Has dynamic dependencies but will only be re-declared when isEditing or the input data changes
  const renderItem = useCallback(({ item }) => {
    return (<Text>{isEditing ? 'item.name' : 'Editing'}</Text>);
  }, [isEditing]);

  return (<FlatList renderItem={renderItem} data={data ?? EMPTY_ARRAY} />);
}

require-memo

Requires all function components to be wrapped in React.memo().
May be useful when used with overrides in your eslint config, I do not recommend enabling this globally, while there's great advantaje in memoing a complex tree of components some smaller/basic components with no children might not need to be memoized.

Incorrect

export default function Component() {
  return (<Text>This is a component</Text>);
}

Correct

export default memo(function Component() {
  return (<Text>This is a component</Text>);
});

require-usememo-children Advanced

Requires complex values (objects, arrays, functions, and JSX) that get passed as children to be wrapped in React.useMemo() or React.useCallback().

Options:

• {strict: true}: Fails even in cases where it is difficult to determine if the value in question is a primitive (string or number) or a complex value (object, array, etc.).

Incorrect

function Component() {

  return (<View>
    <>
    <OtherComponent />
    </>
  </View>);
}

Correct

function Component() {
  const children = useMemo(() => (<OtherComponent />), []);
  
  return (<View>
    {children}
  </View>);
}