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React Application Architecture for Production - Second Edition
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Before we can fix performance problems, we need to identify them. React applications can suffer from unnecessary re-renders, which waste CPU cycles and make the UI feel unresponsive. Understanding when and why components re-render is crucial for building fast React applications.
React DevTools is the best way to understand how our application renders and identify components that might be causing slowdowns. It's a browser extension created by the React team that gives us insight into what React is doing behind the scenes.
The React DevTools Profiler tab lets us record a session and see exactly which components rendered, how long each render took, and what triggered the render. To use it, we open the Profiler tab, click the record button, interact with our application, and then stop recording. The profiler shows us a flame graph of renders, where wider bars indicate longer render times.
The profiler output looks like this:

Figure 8.1 – Profiler...