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use-web-kit

v1.1.0

Published

A zero-cost performance toolkit for React 19. Global singletons, RAF-batched updates, and perfect hydration without external dependencies.

Downloads

297

Readme

use-web-kit

A zero-cost performance toolkit for React 19.

Provides a suite of production-ready hooks that bypass standard React render cascades by leveraging global singletons, RAF-batched state updates, and React 19 native ref cleanups. Built for engineering teams that require perfect 60fps performance and exact SSR hydration matching without the bloat of external dependencies.

Installation

```bash npm install use-web-kit ```

Architecture

Traditional React hook libraries often introduce significant overhead by instantiating new browser APIs (like IntersectionObserver or Worker) for every component instance. use-web-kit solves this using a zero-cost abstraction model:

  1. Global Singletons: Hooks like useSmartIntersection and useWorkerPool share a single module-level instance. Observing 1,000 DOM nodes incurs the exact same memory footprint as observing 1.
  2. RAF-Batched Updates: Rapidly firing events (scroll, resize, mutations) are coalesced and dispatched within a single requestAnimationFrame cycle, ensuring React reconciliation happens exactly once per frame.
  3. Strict SSR Hydration: Browser API integrations utilize useSyncExternalStore internally to guarantee perfect matching between server-rendered HTML and the initial client pass.

Core API

The toolkit is divided into five architectural domains:

DOM Engine

  • useSmartIntersection: Zero-overhead intersection observation via global singletons.
  • usePageLifecycle: Hook into visibility state and page freeze events.

Concurrency Engine

  • useWorkerPool: Thread-pool abstraction over Web Workers that dynamically scales to navigator.hardwareConcurrency.
  • useIdleQueue: Defer non-critical analytics and cache writes to requestIdleCallback.

State Synchronization

  • useBroadcastState: O(1) cross-tab state synchronization that bypasses React Context.
  • useDebouncedStorage: SSR-safe localStorage wrapper with integrated debounce and cross-tab sync.

Network & BOM

  • useNetworkStatus: Comprehensive network connection monitoring (RTT, downlink, effective type).
  • useAdaptivePolling: Polling intervals that dynamically slow down on poor connections or hidden tabs.
  • useMediaControls: Abstracted media element state without native DOM event listener bloat.

Action Pipelines

  • useEventPipeline: Compose asynchronous event handlers with built-in retry and rollback logic.

Skills Kit Integration

use-web-kit goes beyond standard NPM packages by scaffolding its architectural best practices directly into your repository.

```bash npx use-web-kit init ```

This command generates a skills/ directory containing copy-paste ready recipes, performance guidelines, and optimized prompts for AI coding assistants.

Requirements

  • React: >= 19.0.0
  • TypeScript: >= 5.0

License

MIT License. Engineered for modern web applications.