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Why Your React App Re-renders 100 Times (And How to Fix It)

February 1, 20267 min readBy Saad Minhas

React · Performance · Re-renders · JavaScript · Frontend

Why Your React App Re-renders 100 Times (And How to Fix It)

React re-renders can get out of hand—components firing 100+ times, performance tanking, and bugs that are hard to trace. Understanding why re-renders happen and how to control them is key to building fast React apps.


Read the full article on Medium for a deep dive on re-render causes and fixes: context, state updates, memoization, and what actually works.

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