perf: memoize MessageRow - #7669
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WalkthroughMessage separator calculation now uses a shared utility and ChangesMessage separator state
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Refactor Suggested labels: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change centralizes separator calculation but can omit the unread marker for a first visible message exactly at the last-seen timestamp. This is a limited display edge case, so the PR is otherwise mergeable with bounded follow-up. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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app/views/RoomView/components/MessageRow.tsx (2)
38-38: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd an explicit return type to
MessageRow.The function has a typed parameter but no return-type annotation. Add
JSX.Elementand import the type fromreact.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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38-38: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winStabilize
onMessageLongPressbefore relying onMessageRowmemoization.
useMessageActionscreatesonMessageLongPressas a new function on every hook render.RoomScreenpasses it throughRoomMessageListandListContainerto everyMessageRow, so unchanged rows re-render whenever the room screen re-renders. Memoize this callback and any changing dependency it requires.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@app/views/RoomView/components/MessageRow.tsx`:
- Line 38: Update the memoized MessageRow component to react to WatermelonDB
model updates for both item and previousItem, ensuring changes to their t, ts,
or u fields refresh separator and loader rendering. Add row-level subscriptions
or pass replacement/derived props that change when either model updates, while
preserving the existing rendering behavior.
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In `@app/views/RoomView/components/MessageRow.tsx`:
- Line 38: Add an explicit JSX.Element return type to the memoized MessageRow
function and import the JSX type from react, preserving its existing props and
rendering behavior.
- Line 38: Memoize the onMessageLongPress callback returned by
useMessageActions, including all changing dependencies it captures, so its
reference remains stable across unchanged RoomScreen renders. Preserve the
existing callback behavior through RoomMessageList, ListContainer, and
MessageRow.
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MessageRow is memoized, but WatermelonDB mutates records in place. A message sent before midnight and confirmed after it keeps the same record identity, so the memo skipped the re-render and the date separator stayed stale. Move the derivation into MessageProvider, which already subscribes both the message and the previous message to the same tick. MessageRow keeps calling the shared getMessageSeparators for the LoadMore branch, which sits outside the provider.
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app/containers/message/utils.ts (1)
8-8: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueUse an interface for
TMessageSeparators.
TMessageSeparatorsdefines an object shape. Declare it as an interface to follow the repository’s TypeScript convention.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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app/containers/message/index.tsx (1)
21-21: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueDeclare the return type for
MessageSeparators.The function returns a
MessageSeparatorelement but has no explicit return type. Add(): ReactElementand importReactElementas a type fromreact.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@app/containers/message/utils.ts`:
- Line 22: Update the first-item unread check in the message utility so a
timestamp equal to lastSeen uses the same inclusive boundary as the prev-message
path, by treating dates that are not before lastSeen as unread. Add a test
covering an item exactly equal to lastSeen and verify the separator is shown.
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In `@app/containers/message/index.tsx`:
- Line 21: Update the MessageSeparators function signature to explicitly return
ReactElement, and add a type-only ReactElement import from react.
In `@app/containers/message/utils.ts`:
- Line 8: Change TMessageSeparators from a type alias to an interface while
preserving its dateSeparator and showUnreadSeparator properties.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Use the same unread boundary for the first item.
Line 22 excludes an item whose timestamp equals lastSeen. Lines 25-26 include that same boundary when prev exists. A first visible message at exactly lastSeen will omit the unread separator.
Use !itemDate.isBefore(lastSeen) here and add an equality-case test.
Proposed fix
- showUnreadSeparator = lastSeen ? itemDate.isAfter(lastSeen) : false;
+ showUnreadSeparator = lastSeen ? !itemDate.isBefore(lastSeen) : false;📝 Committable suggestion
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| showUnreadSeparator = lastSeen ? itemDate.isAfter(lastSeen) : false; | |
| showUnreadSeparator = lastSeen ? !itemDate.isBefore(lastSeen) : false; |
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In `@app/containers/message/utils.ts` at line 22, Update the first-item unread
check in the message utility so a timestamp equal to lastSeen uses the same
inclusive boundary as the prev-message path, by treating dates that are not
before lastSeen as unread. Add a test covering an item exactly equal to lastSeen
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Proposed changes
MessageRowre-rendered once per visible cell on every incoming message. All of thosere-renders were no-ops: nothing on the row actually differed, the parent just re-rendered
because
renderItemis a fresh closure each time, which invalidatesCellRendererone levelabove the row.
Wrapping the row in
React.memowith the default shallow comparator stops the call. The fourprops are a primitive, a possibly-undefined string, and two WatermelonDB model references, all
of which compare correctly by reference, so no custom comparator is needed.
memois complementary to the React Compiler rather than a substitute: the compiler caches thebody's work but cannot stop the component from being called. Content updates still reach the row
by a different route, the
MessageProviderstore tick consumed by theuseMessageFieldselectors, which is the same reasoning that has kept
memo(MessageContainer)safe. Context andzustand subscriptions are unaffected by
memo, solastSeenand theuseRoomStoreselectorskeep working.
The function inside
memo(...)is named so the fiber records asMemo(MessageRow). An anonymousarrow records as
Anonymous, indistinguishable from the other memoized anonymous components onthis screen.
RoomsListViewalready uses this shape.Issue(s)
https://rocketchat.atlassian.net/browse/NATIVE-1537
How to test or reproduce
Open a room with a screenful of messages and send two messages while profiling React commits.
Before: the row rendered once per visible cell on each incoming message, around 19 to 21
occurrences per send, every one of them carrying an empty change description.
After: 1 mount and 0 re-renders for the row per send, while
CellRendererkeeps re-rendering19 to 21 times. The cell continuing to re-render is the point, it shows the memo is absorbing
the parent render rather than the parent having stopped rendering.
Measured on an Android debug build, API 36, bridgeless, one profiler session covering an idle
arm plus two sends. Across the whole session the row fiber appeared twice, both mounts.
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The existing
MessageRowtests pass unchanged, which is the expected outcome since they renderthe component directly and a memo wrapper is transparent to that.
Follow-up worth doing separately:
highlightedMessageis passed to every row as the same stringand reduced to
highlighted={highlightedMessage === item.id}inside the row. Any highlightchange therefore changes a prop on every row and defeats this memo for that one case. Computing
the boolean at the callsite would close it.
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