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Discussion on: ⚛️ Reparenting is now possible with React

 
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Mel Bourgeois

Child components with the same key are not reused across separate parents. Whether you're storing the items as separate atoms and storing lists of ids in another atom (which, btw is simply normalization, a practice that's extremely common and simple with Redux) or not. React-Redux also uses selectors to determine the props that will be passed to components based on the centralized state, and if the props haven't changed, the component won't re-render. There are also libraries like reselect for setting up multiple layers of memoization.

The issue here isn't preventing unnecessary renders, it's preserving dom nodes of a child component when reparenting it. Neither Redux nor Recoil can accomplish that on their own.