use-context-selector VS rfcs

Use jotai, or as someone else mentioned, zustand. React Context out of the box requires a very deliberate mental model due to a lack of tooling around selecting slices of state. This is why packages like react-context-selector exist: https://github.com/dai-shi/use-context-selector

Unless I've missed it, context doesn't have selector IIRC. You'd have to use a third party solution useContextSelector

How does this differ from https://github.com/dai-shi/use-context-selector?

you can always split out context state or use a library to help with rerender issues like https://github.com/dai-shi/use-context-selector, or just switch to jotai or something else if you want something more ergonomic or better design patterns.

If you don't want to swap out useContext, you could always use useContextSelector, which helps you limit what props in the context should rerender the component.

I wouldn't call this easy

It wouldn't be clear to anyone learning Context API either. At least, not using official docs. Because Context API is not supposed for state management, and if you for some unknown reasons try to roll your own state management on top of it, you have to use tricky libraries to work around the issues resulting from such abuse.

Any time anything in the context changes, any component that is consuming it will re-render. If you use it for frequently changed values, this library is needed to reduce unnecessary re-renders.

Use of this implementation of useContextSelector

Another technology I use regularly is Redux. But this time I wanted to manage the global state in a simpler and clearer way just using React hooks. I decided to go with a simple useReducer combined with theuseContextSelector hook which will avoid the whole application’s re-render caused by the native useContext hook.

Examples from the conversations of that time:

> ...we want closures to capture the values we rendered with, and to keep "seeing" those values forever. That's really important for concurrent mode where a notion of current value doesn't really exist. Hooks design models a component as being in many non-clashing states at the same time, instead of switching the "current" state (which is what classes model well). People don't really need to think about these details, but they're motivating the design a lot. [0]

> In Concurrent Mode, render may run more then one time, and since this in a class is mutable, renders that should be the same may not be. [1]

[0] - https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/68#issuecomment-4778866...

[1] - https://tkplaceholder.io/why-function-components-fit-react-b...

There are multiple names for this hook. You can find the documentation under the names useEvent or useEffectEvent.

-https://www.patterns.dev/ -https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/blob/main/text/0188-server-components.md -https://dev.to/this-is-learning/qwik-the-post-modern-framework-3c5o -https://dev.to/this-is-learning/astro-framework-169m -https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/rendering-on-the-web -https://web.dev/vitals/

However, in React, function components can return a ReactNode. This type includes number | string | Iterable | undefined and will likely also include Promise( in the future.

I was also hoping that useEvent would eliminate some weird dependency cases, who knows when that will actually happen (https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/220).

Given a lot of unknowns on SSR and ReactEng working on RSC it feels like the wrong move to use next.js and I should just use normal react. For basic react is create react app the way to go or vite?

As mentioned before, Next.js takes a stance of treating every component as a Server Component by default. If you want to use a Client Component, you'll need to annotate the file with use client; directive at the top of the component file.

Use client is actually a React convention for what it’s worth. https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/227