vercel-react-best-practices

name vercel-react-best-practices description React and Next.js performance optimization guidelines from Vercel Engineering. This skill should be used when writing, reviewing, or refactoring React/Next.js code to ensure optimal performance patterns. Triggers on tasks involving React components, Next.js pages, data fetching, bundle optimization, or performance improvements. license MIT metadata {"author":"vercel","version":"1.0.0"} Vercel React Best Practices Comprehensive performance optimization guide for React and Next.js applications, maintained by Vercel. Contains 45 rules across 8 categories, prioritized by impact to guide automated refactoring and code generation. When to Apply Reference these guidelines when: Writing new React components or Next.js pages Implementing data fetching (client or server-side) Reviewing code for performance issues Refactoring existing React/Next.js code Optimizing bundle size or load times Rule Categories by Priority Priority Category Impact Prefix 1 Eliminating Waterfalls CRITICAL async- 2 Bundle Size Optimization CRITICAL bundle- 3 Server-Side Performance HIGH server- 4 Client-Side Data Fetching MEDIUM-HIGH client- 5 Re-render Optimization MEDIUM rerender- 6 Rendering Performance MEDIUM rendering- 7 JavaScript Performance LOW-MEDIUM js- 8 Advanced Patterns LOW advanced- Quick Reference 1. Eliminating Waterfalls (CRITICAL) async-defer-await - Move await into branches where actually used async-parallel - Use Promise.all() for independent operations async-dependencies - Use better-all for partial dependencies async-api-routes - Start promises early, await late in API routes async-suspense-boundaries - Use Suspense to stream content 2. Bundle Size Optimization (CRITICAL) bundle-barrel-imports - Import directly, avoid barrel files bundle-dynamic-imports - Use next/dynamic for heavy components bundle-defer-third-party - Load analytics/logging after hydration bundle-conditional - Load modules only when feature is activated bundle-preload - Preload on hover/focus for perceived speed 3. Server-Side Performance (HIGH) server-cache-react - Use React.cache() for per-request deduplication server-cache-lru - Use LRU cache for cross-request caching server-serialization - Minimize data passed to client components server-parallel-fetching - Restructure components to parallelize fetches server-after-nonblocking - Use after() for non-blocking operations 4. Client-Side Data Fetching (MEDIUM-HIGH) client-swr-dedup - Use SWR for automatic request deduplication client-event-listeners - Deduplicate global event listeners 5. Re-render Optimization (MEDIUM) rerender-defer-reads - Don't subscribe to state only used in callbacks rerender-memo - Extract expensive work into memoized components rerender-dependencies - Use primitive dependencies in effects rerender-derived-state - Subscribe to derived booleans, not raw values rerender-functional-setstate - Use functional setState for stable callbacks rerender-lazy-state-init - Pass function to useState for expensive values rerender-transitions - Use startTransition for non-urgent updates 6. Rendering Performance (MEDIUM) rendering-animate-svg-wrapper - Animate div wrapper, not SVG element rendering-content-visibility - Use content-visibility for long lists rendering-hoist-jsx - Extract static JSX outside components rendering-svg-precision - Reduce SVG coordinate precision rendering-hydration-no-flicker - Use inline script for client-only data rendering-activity - Use Activity component for show/hide rendering-conditional-render - Use ternary, not && for conditionals 7. JavaScript Performance (LOW-MEDIUM) js-batch-dom-css - Group CSS changes via classes or cssText js-index-maps - Build Map for repeated lookups js-cache-property-access - Cache object properties in loops js-cache-function-results - Cache function results in module-level Map js-cache-storage - Cache localStorage/sessionStorage reads js-combine-iterations - Combine multiple filter/map into one loop js-length-check-first - Check array length before expensive comparison js-early-exit - Return early from functions js-hoist-regexp - Hoist RegExp creation outside loops js-min-max-loop - Use loop for min/max instead of sort js-set-map-lookups - Use Set/Map for O(1) lookups js-tosorted-immutable - Use toSorted() for immutability 8. Advanced Patterns (LOW) advanced-event-handler-refs - Store event handlers in refs advanced-use-latest - useLatest for stable callback refs How to Use Read individual rule files for detailed explanations and code examples: rules/async-parallel.md rules/bundle-barrel-imports.md rules/_sections.md Each rule file contains: Brief explanation of why it matters Incorrect code example with explanation Correct code example with explanation Additional context and references Full Compiled Document For the complete guide with all rules expanded: AGENTS.md