[HOLD for payment 2024-08-19] Suggestions causing excessive updates

[hannojg]

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Version Number:v9.0.16-4 Develop
Reproducible in staging?: No, but there no warning will be thrown, although the performance impact is there
Reproducible in production?: No, but there no warning will be thrown, although the performance impact is there
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):n/a
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by:@hannojg
Slack conversation:

Action Performed:

• Open the native mobile app in development mode
• Type rapidly into the composer spamming ~80 characters
• In dev mode a warning will popup warning about excessive re-renders

Expected Result:

None of our components rerenders excessively while typing.

Actual Result:

Although there are no visible changes, internally we queue lots of react state updates.

Workaround:

No, its more of a performance issue.

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Screen.Recording.2024-07-19.at.19.11.12.mov

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @twisterdotcom

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @twisterdotcom (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @neil-marcellini, see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/7972 for more details.

[hungvu193]

@neil-marcellini Since I reviewed the PR, can you please assign me to this issue? TIA 😄