react-memo

React.memo polyfill

• What: https://reactjs.org/docs/react-api.html#reactmemo
• Why: https://medium.com/@trekinbami/using-react-memo-and-memoization-1970eb1ed128
• When: React.memo was introduced in React@16.6.0. You can use this polyfill until you upgrade your components

Install

$ yarn add reactmemo

Usage

import memo from 'reactmemo'

function MyComponent(props) { }

memo(MyComponent)

Optionally pass your compare function

import memo from 'reactmemo'

function MyComponent(props) { }
function areEqual(prevProps, nextProps) {
  /*
  return true if passing nextProps to render would return
  the same result as passing prevProps to render,
  otherwise return false
  */
}
export default memo(MyComponent, areEqual);

Author

@zzarcon