@ikoichi/use-deep-effect v1.0.2
use-deep-effect 🕵️♂️
React useEffect
is built to work with primitive values in the dependencies array.
It could happen that in your reach application you need to run side effect on complex objects (Object
s, Array
s, Set
s, Map
s).
In all this cases, you can use useDeepEffect
.
Installation
npm i use-deep-effect
Usage
import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
import useDeepEffect from 'use-deep-effect'
const MyComponent = ({ listOfComments }) => {
useDeepEffect(() => {
/* side effect */
},
/* listOfComments is an array of objects */
[listOfComments])
return </>
}
Custom comparison function
By default, useDeepEffect
uses fast-deep-equal as comparison function, but you can use your custom function by passing it as third argument.
useDeepEffect(fn, dependencies, comparisonFunction)
Why useEffect
only works with primitive values?
useEffect
uses referencial equality under the hood. This makes it perfectly working with primitive values (number, string, boolean), bot not with complex types (array, object, set, map).
For instance, this equality check returns false even if the two objects own the same keys and values:
const aFoo = { foo: 'foo' };
const bFoo = { foo: 'foo' };
aFoo === bFoo
false
You can use useDeepEffect
, but remember that it comes with a performance cost (often negligible).
3 years ago