If I understand correctly, if a unique key is provided to each list item, whenever we add new or delete existing items, the remaining ones will be re-rendered. However, I am using a unique key for the Item element and when I click the Add button, I am still seeing the render string (I added a console.log() in the Item component) been printed in console X number of times (x equals the number of total list items).
The complete code is as below:
import "./styles.css";
import { v4 as uuidv4 } from "uuid";
import { useState } from "react";
const data = () => {
let result = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
result.push({
id: uuidv4(),
value: i + 1
});
}
return result;
};
function Item({ item }) {
console.log("render");
return (
<li>
<label>{item.value}</label>
</li>
);
}
export default function App() {
const [state, setState] = useState(data());
function handleAdd(e) {
setState([
...state,
{
id: uuidv4(),
value: state[state.length - 1].value + 1
}
]);
}
return (
<div className="App">
<button onClick={handleAdd}>Add</button>
{state.map((item) => (
<Item item={item} key={item.id} />
))}
</div>
);
}
CodeSandbox link: https://codesandbox.io/s/react-list-with-unique-key-1rxlhx?file=/src/App.js:0-802
Did I miss anything here?
Keys don't prevent children from re-rendering - rather, they allow for more efficient "reconciliation", by changing only the underlying DOM node that matches that key when needed. The child will still re-render in React regardless, but if the rendering of the child results in different markup, the key will be used to efficiently determine which DOM element(s) corresponding to that key needs to be changed, rather than changing everything.
If you want to prevent re-rendering, that requires a different tool - React.memo often works for individual components. For dynamic lists like these though, you can put the component into state.
const { useState } = React;
const data = () => {
let result = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
result.push({
id: Math.random(),
value: i + 1
});
}
return result;
};
function Item({ item }) {
console.log("render");
return (
<li>
<label>{item.value}</label>
</li>
);
}
function App() {
const [items, setItems] = useState(() => data().map(dataObj => <Item item={dataObj} />));
function handleAdd(e) {
setItems([
...items,
<Item item={{
id: Math.random(),
value: items.length + 1
}} />
]);
}
return (
<div className="App">
<button onClick={handleAdd}>Add</button>
{items}
</div>
);
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.querySelector('.react'));<script crossorigin src="https://unpkg.com/react@16/umd/react.development.js"></script>
<script crossorigin src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom@16/umd/react-dom.development.js"></script>
<div class='react'></div>