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React Compiler: Goodbye useMemo?
A codebase with 400 useMemo calls and still-broken re-renders is what pushed us to React Compiler 1.0. What it auto-memoizes, and where useMemo survives.
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A codebase with 400 useMemo calls and still-broken re-renders is what pushed us to React Compiler 1.0. What it auto-memoizes, and where useMemo survives.
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