the react hook's linter likes to be strict with the DependencyList. That leads to the following broken situation where 2 event handlers depend on each other.
Since the functions are registered with addEventListener I know if they ever change it'll introduce a memory leak so the easy thing to do is just empty the dependency list-- but what is the right way to handle this while playing by the linter's rules?
const onMouseMove = useCallback((e) => {
if (!isSwipe(e)) {
onMouseUp(e)
}
}, [onMouseUp])
const onMouseUp = useCallback((e) => {
document.removeEventListener('mousemove', onMouseMove)
}, [onMouseMove])
useCallback is essentially a version of useMemo, specialized for memoizing functions. If two functions are co-dependent and can't be memoized separately with useCallback, they can be memoized together with useMemo:
const { onMouseMove, onMouseUp } = useMemo(() => {
const onMouseMove = (e) => {
if (!isSwipe(e)) {
onMouseUp(e)
}
};
const onMouseUp = (e) => {
document.removeEventListener('mousemove', onMouseMove)
}
return { onMouseMove, onMouseUp };
}, [/* shared deps*/]);
This is the general pattern I'd use to memoize functions together, and I think it's the simplest answer to the general question. But I'm not sure, looking at the actual code here, that it's the best approach - the removeEventListener may not work if the onMouseMove is a different function than the one that was registered due to useMemo recalculating. Might be more of a useEffect sort of use-case, in practice.
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