#Renders

A postmortem on burning $73.40 trying to recreate the Air Bending Effect and Firework Effect for a client. What broke, what I changed, the workflow I kept.

From Dev.to - javascript: I Thought I Knew React. Then I Watched It Re-render 47 Times on a Button Click.

Sony’s leaked ColleXion headphones appear to combine a cleaner minimalist design with a redesigned hinge mechanism that could finally address complaints around the WH-1000XM6.

From Dev.to - javascript: Preventing unnecessary re-renders using React.memo, useMemo and useCallback hooks

Render phase vs commit phase, reconciliation and fibers, what triggers re-renders, referential equality traps, context pitfalls, and React 18 batching.

Most React memoization is premature. This breaks down when memo, useMemo, and useCallback actually help and when they add memory overhead with no real gain.