[![logo](./website/static/img/react-tracked-logo-animated1.svg)](https://react-tracked.js.org) # React Tracked [![CI](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/dai-shi/react-tracked/ci.yml?branch=main)](https://github.com/dai-shi/react-tracked/actions?query=workflow%3ACI) [![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/react-tracked)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-tracked) [![size](https://img.shields.io/bundlephobia/minzip/react-tracked)](https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=react-tracked) [![discord](https://img.shields.io/discord/627656437971288081)](https://discord.gg/MrQdmzd) State usage tracking with Proxies. Optimize re-renders for useState/useReducer, React Redux, Zustand and others. Documentation site: https://react-tracked.js.org ## Introduction Preventing re-renders is one of performance issues in React. Smaller apps wouldn't usually suffer from such a performance issue, but once apps have a central global state that would be used in many components. The performance issue would become a problem. For example, Redux is usually used for a single global state, and React-Redux provides a selector interface to solve the performance issue. Selectors are useful to structure state accessor, however, using selectors only for performance wouldn't be the best fit. Selectors for performance require understanding object reference equality which is non-trival for beginners and experts would still have difficulties for complex structures. React Tracked is a library to provide so-called "state usage tracking." It's a technique to track property access of a state object, and only triggers re-renders if the accessed property is changed. Technically, it uses Proxies underneath, and it works not only for the root level of the object but also for deep nested objects. Prior to v1.6.0, React Tracked is a library to replace React Context use cases for global state. React hook useContext triggers re-renders whenever a small part of state object is changed, and it would cause performance issues pretty easily. React Tracked provides an API that is very similar to useContext-style global state. Since v1.6.0, it provides another building-block API which is capable to create a "state usage tracking" hooks from any selector interface hooks. It can be used with React-Redux useSelector, and any other libraries that provide useSelector-like hooks. ## Install This package requires some peer dependencies, which you need to install by yourself. ```bash yarn add react-tracked react scheduler react-dom ``` For React Native users: ```bash yarn add react-tracked react scheduler react-native ``` ## Usage There are two main APIs `createContainer` and `createTrackedSelector`. Both take a hook as an input and return a hook (or a container including a hook). There could be various use cases. Here are some typical ones. ### createContainer / useState #### Define a `useValue` custom hook ```js import { useState } from 'react'; const useValue = () => useState({ count: 0, text: 'hello', }); ``` This can be useReducer or any hook that returns a tuple `[state, dispatch]`. #### Create a container ```js import { createContainer } from 'react-tracked'; const { Provider, useTracked } = createContainer(useValue); ``` #### useTracked in a component ```jsx const Counter = () => { const [state, setState] = useTracked(); const increment = () => { setState((prev) => ({ ...prev, count: prev.count + 1, })); }; return (

Count: {state.count}

); }; ``` The `useTracked` hook returns a tuple that `useValue` returns, except that the first is the state wrapped by proxies and the second part is a wrapped function for a reason. Thanks to proxies, the property access in render is tracked and this component will re-render only if `state.count` is changed. #### Wrap your App with Provider ```jsx const App = () => ( ); ``` ### createTrackedSelector / react-redux #### Create `useTrackedSelector` from `useSelector` ```js import { useSelector, useDispatch } from 'react-redux'; import { createTrackedSelector } from 'react-tracked'; const useTrackedSelector = createTrackedSelector(useSelector); ``` #### useTrackedSelector in a component ```jsx const Counter = () => { const state = useTrackedSelector(); const dispatch = useDispatch(); return (

Count: {state.count}

); }; ``` ### createTrackedSelector / zustand #### Create useStore ```js import create from 'zustand'; const useStore = create(() => ({ count: 0 })); ``` #### Create `useTrackedStore` from `useStore` ```js import { createTrackedSelector } from 'react-tracked'; const useTrackedStore = createTrackedSelector(useStore); ``` #### useTrackedStore in a component ```jsx const Counter = () => { const state = useTrackedStore(); const increment = () => { useStore.setState((prev) => ({ count: prev.count + 1 })); }; return (

Count: {state.count}

); }; ``` ## Notes with React 18 This library internally uses `use-context-selector`, a userland solution for `useContextSelector` hook. React 18 changes useReducer behavior which `use-context-selector` depends on. This may cause an unexpected behavior for developers. If you see more `console.log` logs than expected, you may want to try putting `console.log` in useEffect. If that shows logs as expected, it's an expected behavior. For more information: - https://github.com/dai-shi/use-context-selector/issues/100 - https://github.com/dai-shi/react-tracked/issues/177 ## API [docs/api](./website/docs/api.md) ## Recipes [docs/recipes](./website/docs/recipes.md) ## Caveats [docs/caveats](./website/docs/caveats.md) ## Related projects [docs/comparison](./website/docs/comparison.md) ## Examples The [examples](examples) folder contains working examples. You can run one of them with ```bash PORT=8080 yarn run examples:01_minimal ``` and open in your web browser. You can also try them in codesandbox.io: [01](https://codesandbox.io/s/github/dai-shi/react-tracked/tree/main/examples/01_minimal) [02](https://codesandbox.io/s/github/dai-shi/react-tracked/tree/main/examples/02_typescript) [03](https://codesandbox.io/s/github/dai-shi/react-tracked/tree/main/examples/03_usestate) [04](https://codesandbox.io/s/github/dai-shi/react-tracked/tree/main/examples/04_selector) [05](https://codesandbox.io/s/github/dai-shi/react-tracked/tree/main/examples/05_container) [06](https://codesandbox.io/s/github/dai-shi/react-tracked/tree/main/examples/06_customhook) [07](https://codesandbox.io/s/github/dai-shi/react-tracked/tree/main/examples/07_todolist) [08](https://codesandbox.io/s/github/dai-shi/react-tracked/tree/main/examples/08_comparison) [09](https://codesandbox.io/s/github/dai-shi/react-tracked/tree/main/examples/09_reactmemo) [10](https://codesandbox.io/s/github/dai-shi/react-tracked/tree/main/examples/10_untracked) [11](https://codesandbox.io/s/github/dai-shi/react-tracked/tree/main/examples/11_form) [12](https://codesandbox.io/s/github/dai-shi/react-tracked/tree/main/examples/12_async) [13](https://codesandbox.io/s/github/dai-shi/react-tracked/tree/main/examples/13_saga) ## Benchmarks See [this](https://github.com/dai-shi/react-tracked/issues/1#issuecomment-519509857) for details. ## Blogs - [Super performant global state with React context and hooks](https://blog.axlight.com/posts/super-performant-global-state-with-react-context-and-hooks/) - [Redux-less context-based useSelector hook that has same performance as React-Redux](https://blog.axlight.com/posts/benchmark-react-tracked/) - [Four different approaches to non-Redux global state libraries](https://blog.axlight.com/posts/four-different-approaches-to-non-redux-global-state-libraries/) - [What is state usage tracking? A novel approach to intuitive and performant global state with React hooks and Proxy](https://blog.axlight.com/posts/what-is-state-usage-tracking-a-novel-approach-to-intuitive-and-performant-api-with-react-hooks-and-proxy/) - [How to use react-tracked: React hooks-oriented Todo List example](https://blog.axlight.com/posts/how-to-use-react-tracked-react-hooks-oriented-todo-list-example/) - [Effortless render optimization with state usage tracking with React hooks](https://blog.axlight.com/posts/effortless-render-optimization-with-state-usage-tracking-with-react-hooks/) - [4 options to prevent extra rerenders with React context](https://blog.axlight.com/posts/4-options-to-prevent-extra-rerenders-with-react-context/) - [React Tracked Documentation Website with Docusaurus v2](https://blog.axlight.com/posts/react-tracked-documentation-website-with-docusaurus-v2/)

	Stars	Issues	Version	Updated	Created
react-redux			9.1.2	16 days ago	9 years ago
react-tracked	2,657	0	2.0.0	12 days ago	5 years ago
recoil	19,462	320	0.7.7	a year ago	4 years ago
redux-toolkit	2	0	1.1.2	9 years ago	9 years ago
zustand	43,171	7	4.5.2	3 months ago	5 years ago

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