Optimizing performance in a React app
Blog post from LogRocket
Optimizing performance in React applications is crucial for maintaining a positive user experience, especially as applications grow and become more complex. By understanding how React updates its UI through the virtual DOM and addressing issues with unnecessary re-renders, developers can enhance performance. Techniques include keeping component state local, memoizing components with React.memo(), and employing useCallback and useMemo Hooks to prevent redundant computations. Code splitting with dynamic import(), windowing or list virtualization, and lazy loading images are additional strategies to improve load times and rendering efficiency. Using immutable data structures and web workers for multitasking also contributes to better performance. Finally, integrating Reselect with Redux helps in optimizing state management by reducing unnecessary re-renders. These approaches collectively help developers build faster and more efficient React applications.