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⚡ Bolt: React Flow 60fps Re-rendering latency via WeakMap caching#614

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⚡ Bolt: React Flow 60fps Re-rendering latency via WeakMap caching#614
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💡 What: Introduced a WeakMap inside frontend/src/App.tsx's visibleNodes to cache the decorated node .data state keyed by the original, stable node.data reference.
🎯 Why: Previously, dynamically injecting search highlights via object spreads inside visibleNodes created a new data object reference on every render frame (such as during fast React Flow drag events). This constantly busted the fast-path referential equality check (prev.data === next.data) in React.memo (used inside TableNode), forcing massive React tree re-renders and visible lag.
📊 Impact: Preserves node object identity across frames during position updates, dramatically reducing React tree re-renders and UI latency during drag operations by allowing React to successfully hit memoization caches.
🔬 Measurement: Running the app with a large number of nodes and dragging them will show a significant drop in re-renders and a smoother 60fps experience compared to the previous behavior where every drag frame caused a full node re-render. All tests pass with 100% coverage.


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Pull request overview

This PR targets frontend rendering performance in the React Flow ERD canvas by avoiding per-frame node.data reference churn when applying search highlight/dim decorations, so TableNode’s React.memo fast-path (prev.data === next.data) can be hit during high-frequency drag updates.

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  • Add a WeakMap-backed cache for decorated TableNodeData when computing visibleNodes, keyed by the stable node.data reference.
  • Document the optimization/lesson-learned in .jules/bolt.md.

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frontend/src/App.tsx Introduces WeakMap caching to preserve node.data identity while injecting search highlight/dim flags.
.jules/bolt.md Adds an entry documenting the React Flow re-render latency optimization approach.

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Comment thread frontend/src/App.tsx
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const nodeSearchCacheRef = useRef<WeakMap<TableNodeData, TableNodeData>>(new WeakMap());

const visibleNodes = useMemo(() => {
if (!normalizedNodeSearch) return nodes;

const cache = nodeSearchCacheRef.current;
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