(fix) Reduce re-render churn in FormProcessorFactory

jest.config.js

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// Set timezone to UTC for consistent date handling in tests
+process.env.TZ = 'UTC';
+
 /** @type {import('jest').Config} */
 module.exports = {
   verbose: true,

src/components/processor-factory/form-processor-factory.component.tsx

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-import React, { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
+import React, { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
+import { type OpenmrsResource } from '@openmrs/esm-framework';
 import useProcessorDependencies from '../../hooks/useProcessorDependencies';
 import useInitialValues from '../../hooks/useInitialValues';
 import { FormRenderer } from '../renderer/form/form-renderer.component';
@@ -22,12 +23,20 @@ interface FormProcessorFactoryProps {
   setIsLoadingFormDependencies: (isLoading: boolean) => void;
 }
 
+// Mutable parts of the context that can be updated by processors/hooks
+interface MutableContextState {
+  domainObjectValue?: OpenmrsResource;
+  previousDomainObjectValue?: OpenmrsResource;
+  customDependencies?: Record<string, any>;
+}
+
 const FormProcessorFactory = ({
   formJson,
   isSubForm = false,
   setIsLoadingFormDependencies,
 }: FormProcessorFactoryProps) => {
   const { patient, sessionMode, formProcessors, layoutType, location, provider, sessionDate, visit } = useFormFactory();
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
 
   const processor = useMemo(() => {
     const ProcessorClass = formProcessors[formJson.processor];
@@ -38,58 +47,109 @@ const FormProcessorFactory = ({
     return new EncounterFormProcessor(formJson);
   }, [formProcessors, formJson.processor]);
 
-  const [processorContext, setProcessorContext] = useState<FormProcessorContextProps>({
-    patient,
-    formJson,
-    sessionMode,
-    layoutType,
-    location,
-    currentProvider: provider,
-    processor,
-    sessionDate,
-    visit,
-    formFields: [],
-    formFieldAdapters: {},
-    formFieldValidators: {},
-  });
-  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  // Derive form fields and related data
   const { formFields: rawFormFields, conceptReferences } = useFormFields(formJson);
   const { concepts: formFieldsConcepts, isLoading: isLoadingConcepts } = useConcepts(Array.from(conceptReferences));
   const formFieldsWithMeta = useFormFieldsMeta(rawFormFields, formFieldsConcepts);
   const formFieldAdapters = useFormFieldValueAdapters(rawFormFields);
   const formFieldValidators = useFormFieldValidators(rawFormFields);
+
+  const formFields = useMemo(
+    () => (formFieldsWithMeta?.length ? formFieldsWithMeta : rawFormFields ?? []),
+    [formFieldsWithMeta, rawFormFields],
+  );
+
+  // We divide the context into the "mutable" parts, which can be changed by custom hooks
+  // and the "static" parts
+  const [mutableContext, setMutableContext] = useState<MutableContextState>({});
+
+  // Create the "static" part of the context
+  const baseContext = useMemo<Omit<FormProcessorContextProps, keyof MutableContextState>>(
+    () => ({
+      patient,
+      formJson,
+      sessionMode,
+      layoutType,
+      location,
+      currentProvider: provider,
+      processor,
+      sessionDate,
+      visit,
+      formFields,
+      formFieldAdapters: formFieldAdapters ?? {},
+      formFieldValidators: formFieldValidators ?? {},
+    }),
+    [
+      patient,
+      formJson,
+      sessionMode,
+      layoutType,
+      location,
+      provider,
+      processor,
+      sessionDate,
+      visit,
+      formFields,
+      formFieldAdapters,
+      formFieldValidators,
+    ],
+  );
+
+  // re-create the full processor context
+  const processorContext = useMemo<FormProcessorContextProps>(
+    () => ({
+      ...baseContext,
+      ...mutableContext,
+    }),
+    [baseContext, mutableContext],
+  );
+
+  // callback to update the mutable part of the context
+  const setProcessorContext = useCallback(
+    (updater: FormProcessorContextProps | ((prev: FormProcessorContextProps) => FormProcessorContextProps)) => {
+      setMutableContext((prevMutable) => {
+        // Build the "previous" full context to pass to the updater
+        const prevFull: FormProcessorContextProps = {
+          ...baseContext,
+          ...prevMutable,
+        };
+
+        const newFull = typeof updater === 'function' ? updater(prevFull) : updater;
+
+        // Extract only the mutable parts from the result
+        return {
+          domainObjectValue: newFull.domainObjectValue,
+          previousDomainObjectValue: newFull.previousDomainObjectValue,
+          customDependencies: newFull.customDependencies,
+        };
+      });
+    },
+    [baseContext],
+  );
+
   const { isLoading: isLoadingCustomDeps } = useProcessorDependencies(processor, processorContext, setProcessorContext);
   const useCustomHooks = processor.getCustomHooks().useCustomHooks;
   const [isLoadingCustomHooks, setIsLoadingCustomHooks] = useState(!!useCustomHooks);
-  const [isLoadingProcessorDependencies, setIsLoadingProcessorDependencies] = useState(true);
   const {
     isLoadingInitialValues,
     initialValues,
     error: initialValuesError,
   } = useInitialValues(processor, isLoadingCustomDeps || isLoadingCustomHooks || isLoadingConcepts, processorContext);
 
-  useEffect(() => {
-    const isLoading = isLoadingCustomDeps || isLoadingCustomHooks || isLoadingConcepts || isLoadingInitialValues;
-    setIsLoadingFormDependencies(isLoading);
-    setIsLoadingProcessorDependencies(isLoading);
-  }, [isLoadingCustomDeps, isLoadingCustomHooks, isLoadingConcepts, isLoadingInitialValues]);
+  // Derive loading state with useMemo to avoid effect-based state updates
+  const isLoadingProcessorDependencies = useMemo(
+    () => isLoadingCustomDeps || isLoadingCustomHooks || isLoadingConcepts || isLoadingInitialValues,
+    [isLoadingCustomDeps, isLoadingCustomHooks, isLoadingConcepts, isLoadingInitialValues],
+  );
 
+  // Notify parent of loading state changes
   useEffect(() => {
-    setProcessorContext((prev) => ({
-      ...prev,
-      ...(formFieldAdapters && { formFieldAdapters }),
-      ...(formFieldValidators && { formFieldValidators }),
-      ...(formFieldsWithMeta?.length
-        ? { formFields: formFieldsWithMeta }
-        : rawFormFields?.length
-        ? { formFields: rawFormFields }
-        : {}),
-    }));
-  }, [formFieldAdapters, formFieldValidators, rawFormFields, formFieldsWithMeta]);
+    setIsLoadingFormDependencies(isLoadingProcessorDependencies);
+  }, [isLoadingProcessorDependencies, setIsLoadingFormDependencies]);
 
   useEffect(() => {
     reportError(initialValuesError, t('errorLoadingInitialValues', 'Error loading initial values'));
-  }, [initialValuesError]);
+  }, [initialValuesError, t]);
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (formFieldAdapters) {

src/form-engine.test.tsx

@@ -147,7 +147,13 @@ jest.mock('./hooks/useEncounterRole', () => ({
 
 jest.mock('./hooks/useConcepts', () => ({
   useConcepts: jest.fn().mockImplementation((references: Set<string>) => {
-    if ([...references].join(',').includes('PIH:Occurrence of trauma,PIH:Yes,PIH:No,PIH:COUGH')) {
+    const refArray = [...references];
+    const hasAllRefs =
+      refArray.includes('PIH:Occurrence of trauma') &&
+      refArray.includes('PIH:Yes') &&
+      refArray.includes('PIH:No') &&
+      refArray.includes('PIH:COUGH');
+    if (hasAllRefs) {
       return {
         isLoading: false,
         concepts: mockConcepts.results,

src/hooks/useFormFieldValidators.ts

@@ -1,22 +1,35 @@
-import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
+import { useMemo, useRef } from 'react';
+import useSWRImmutable from 'swr/immutable';
 import { getRegisteredValidator } from '../registry/registry';
 import { type FormField, type FormFieldValidator } from '../types';
 
 export function useFormFieldValidators(fields: FormField[]) {
-  const [validators, setValidators] = useState<Record<string, FormFieldValidator>>();
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    const supportedTypes = new Set<string>();
+  const validatorTypesKey = useMemo(() => {
+    const uniqueTypes = new Set<string>();
     fields.forEach((field) => {
-      field.validators?.forEach((validator) => supportedTypes.add(validator.type));
-    });
-    const supportedTypesArray = Array.from(supportedTypes);
-    Promise.all(supportedTypesArray.map((type) => getRegisteredValidator(type))).then((validators) => {
-      setValidators(
-        Object.assign({}, ...validators.map((validator, index) => ({ [supportedTypesArray[index]]: validator }))),
-      );
+      field.validators?.forEach((validator) => uniqueTypes.add(validator.type));
     });
+    return Array.from(uniqueTypes).sort().join(',');
   }, [fields]);
 
-  return validators;
+  const validatorsRef = useRef<Record<string, FormFieldValidator>>({});
+
+  const { data: validators } = useSWRImmutable(
+    validatorTypesKey ? ['formFieldValidators', validatorTypesKey] : null,
+    async ([, key]) => {
+      const types = key.split(',');
+      const loadedValidators = await Promise.all(types.map((type) => getRegisteredValidator(type)));
+      const validatorsByType: Record<string, FormFieldValidator> = {};
+      types.forEach((type, index) => {
+        validatorsByType[type] = loadedValidators[index];
+      });
+      return validatorsByType;
+    },
+  );
+
+  if (validators && validators !== validatorsRef.current) {
+    validatorsRef.current = validators;
+  }
+
+  return validatorsRef.current;
 }

src/hooks/useFormFieldValueAdapters.ts

@@ -1,23 +1,33 @@
-import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
+import { useMemo, useRef } from 'react';
+import useSWRImmutable from 'swr/immutable';
 import { type FormField, type FormFieldValueAdapter } from '../types';
 import { getRegisteredFieldValueAdapter } from '../registry/registry';
 
 export const useFormFieldValueAdapters = (fields: FormField[]) => {
-  const [adapters, setAdapters] = useState<Record<string, FormFieldValueAdapter>>({});
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    const supportedTypes = new Set<string>();
-    fields.forEach((field) => {
-      supportedTypes.add(field.type);
-    });
-    const supportedTypesArray = Array.from(supportedTypes);
-    Promise.all(supportedTypesArray.map((type) => getRegisteredFieldValueAdapter(type))).then((adapters) => {
-      const adaptersByType = supportedTypesArray.map((type, index) => ({
-        [type]: adapters[index],
-      }));
-      setAdapters(Object.assign({}, ...adaptersByType));
-    });
+  const typesKey = useMemo(() => {
+    const uniqueTypes = new Set<string>();
+    fields.forEach((field) => uniqueTypes.add(field.type));
+    return Array.from(uniqueTypes).sort().join(',');
   }, [fields]);
 
-  return adapters;
+  const adaptersRef = useRef<Record<string, FormFieldValueAdapter>>({});
+
+  const { data: adapters } = useSWRImmutable(
+    typesKey ? ['formFieldValueAdapters', typesKey] : null,
+    async ([, key]) => {
+      const types = key.split(',');
+      const loadedAdapters = await Promise.all(types.map((type) => getRegisteredFieldValueAdapter(type)));
+      const adaptersByType: Record<string, FormFieldValueAdapter> = {};
+      types.forEach((type, index) => {
+        adaptersByType[type] = loadedAdapters[index];
+      });
+      return adaptersByType;
+    },
+  );
+
+  if (adapters && adapters !== adaptersRef.current) {
+    adaptersRef.current = adapters;
+  }
+
+  return adaptersRef.current;
 };

src/hooks/useFormFields.ts

@@ -1,65 +1,55 @@
-import { useMemo } from 'react';
+import { useMemo, useRef } from 'react';
 import { type FormField, type FormSchema } from '../types';
 
 export function useFormFields(form: FormSchema): { formFields: FormField[]; conceptReferences: Set<string> } {
-  const [flattenedFields, conceptReferences] = useMemo(() => {
+  const conceptReferencesRef = useRef<Set<string>>(new Set());
+
+  const [flattenedFields, conceptReferencesKey] = useMemo(() => {
     const flattenedFieldsTemp: FormField[] = [];
     const conceptReferencesTemp = new Set<string>();
 
-    const processFlattenedFields = (
-      fields: FormField[],
-    ): {
-      flattenedFields: FormField[];
-      conceptReferences: Set<string>;
-    } => {
-      const flattenedFields: FormField[] = [];
-      const conceptReferences = new Set<string>();
+    const processField = (field: FormField, parentGroupId?: string) => {
+      // Add group ID to nested fields if applicable
+      const processedField = parentGroupId ? { ...field, meta: { ...field.meta, groupId: parentGroupId } } : field;
 
-      const processField = (field: FormField, parentGroupId?: string) => {
-        // Add group ID to nested fields if applicable
-        const processedField = parentGroupId ? { ...field, meta: { ...field.meta, groupId: parentGroupId } } : field;
+      // Add field to flattened list
+      flattenedFieldsTemp.push(processedField);
 
-        // Add field to flattened list
-        flattenedFields.push(processedField);
+      // Collect concept references
+      if (processedField.questionOptions?.concept) {
+        conceptReferencesTemp.add(processedField.questionOptions.concept);
+      }
 
-        // Collect concept references
-        if (processedField.questionOptions?.concept) {
-          conceptReferences.add(processedField.questionOptions.concept);
+      // Collect concept references from answers
+      processedField.questionOptions?.answers?.forEach((answer) => {
+        if (answer.concept) {
+          conceptReferencesTemp.add(answer.concept);
         }
+      });
 
-        // Collect concept references from answers
-        processedField.questionOptions?.answers?.forEach((answer) => {
-          if (answer.concept) {
-            conceptReferences.add(answer.concept);
-          }
+      // Recursively process nested questions for obsGroup
+      if (processedField.type === 'obsGroup' && processedField.questions) {
+        processedField.questions.forEach((nestedField) => {
+          processField(nestedField, processedField.id);
         });
-
-        // Recursively process nested questions for obsGroup
-        if (processedField.type === 'obsGroup' && processedField.questions) {
-          processedField.questions.forEach((nestedField) => {
-            processField(nestedField, processedField.id);
-          });
-        }
-      };
-
-      // Process all input fields
-      fields.forEach((field) => processField(field));
-
-      return { flattenedFields, conceptReferences };
+      }
     };
 
+    // Process all input fields
     form.pages?.forEach((page) =>
       page.sections?.forEach((section) => {
-        if (section.questions) {
-          const { flattenedFields, conceptReferences } = processFlattenedFields(section.questions);
-          flattenedFieldsTemp.push(...flattenedFields);
-          conceptReferences.forEach((conceptReference) => conceptReferencesTemp.add(conceptReference));
-        }
+        section.questions?.forEach((field) => processField(field));
       }),
     );
 
-    return [flattenedFieldsTemp, conceptReferencesTemp];
+    const sortedRefs = Array.from(conceptReferencesTemp).sort();
+    return [flattenedFieldsTemp, sortedRefs.join(',')];
   }, [form]);
 
-  return { formFields: flattenedFields, conceptReferences };
+  const currentKey = Array.from(conceptReferencesRef.current).sort().join(',');
+  if (conceptReferencesKey !== currentKey) {
+    conceptReferencesRef.current = new Set(conceptReferencesKey.split(',').filter(Boolean));
+  }
+
+  return { formFields: flattenedFields, conceptReferences: conceptReferencesRef.current };
 }