React Hooks - How do I implement shouldComponentUpdate?

Question

I know you can tell React to skip an effect by passing an array as an optional second argument.

For example:

useEffect(() => {
  document.title = `You clicked ${count} times`;
}, [count]); // Only re-run the effect if count changes

But what if i want to control over the comparison? to add my own comparison logic.

I would expect something like React.memo that you can pass a function as a second argument.

Answer 1

In a comment above Gabriele Petrioli links to the React.memo documentation that explains how to implement shouldComponentUpdate. I was googling combinations of shouldComponentUpdate + useEffect + "react hooks", and this came up as the result. So after solving my problem with the linked documentation I thought I would bring the information here as well.

This is the old way of implementing shouldComponentUpdate:

class MyComponent extends React.Component{
  shouldComponentUpdate(nextProps){
    return nextProps.value !== this.props.value;
  }
  render(){
    return (
     <div>{"My Component " + this.props.value}</div>
    );  
 }
}

The New React Hooks way:

React.memo(function MyComponent (props) {

  return <div>{ "My Component " + props.value }</div>;

}) 

I know you were probably asking for more in your question, but for anyone coming from Google looking for how to implement shouldComponentUpdate using React Hooks, there you go.

The documentation is here: how-do-i-implement-shouldcomponentupdate