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Passive Layout Effect

@react-hook/passive-layout-effect

A React hook that uses useEffect() on the server and useLayoutEffect() in the browser

Hooks
react
react hook
passive layout effect
isomorphic layout effect
@react-hook/passive-layout-effect
Hooks
javascript
npm
frontend
open source
Stars
384
Weekly
1.4M
Open issues
5
Bundle
~25 kB

Installation

npm install @react-hook/passive-layout-effect

Code example

import { usePassiveLayoutEffect } from "@react-hook/passive-layout-effect";

export function Example() {
  const value = usePassiveLayoutEffect();
  return <p>{String(value)}</p>;
}

Pros & cons

Pros

  • Actively maintained by Jared Lunde
  • 1.4M weekly downloads. Battle tested
  • First-class TypeScript definitions
  • MIT licensed

Considerations

  • Adds roughly ~25 kB to your bundle
  • Needs client-only rendering in SSR frameworks
  • Not supported in React Native
  • 5 open issues on GitHub

FAQs

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