react-prop-once

Higher-order component to cache props once on initial mount, and propagate them on every other render

Useful for resolving values (e.g. props) once after initial mount and re-using them as props on every render, rather than resolving them on every render() call. These resolved props are merged with every nextProps.

Internally, props are cached in getInitialState(). This practice is considered an anti-Pattern, but through this higher-order component, this is the intended behaviour.

Usage

$ npm install --save react-prop-once

const once = require('react-prop-once');

function assignPropsOnMount(props) {

    // called once on every mount
    // ...

    return {
        answer: 42
    };
}

function cleanOnUnmount(cached) {

    // called once on every unmount
    // optional clean up step
    // cached is object returned by assignPropsOnMount(...)
}

const WrappedComponent = once(Component, assignPropsOnMount, cleanOnUnmount);

License

MIT