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⚡ Bolt: [performance improvement] Optimize React re-renders in WebSocket panels#140

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⚡ Bolt: [performance improvement] Optimize React re-renders in WebSocket panels#140
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💡 What:

  • Extracted inline JSX for download and log items into separate React.memo components (DownloadItem and LogItem).
  • Added a custom equality function for DownloadItem to only re-render when relevant primitive fields change.
  • Generated stable, unique IDs for incoming log messages so LogPanel can use them as React keys instead of unstable array indices.
  • Moved static helper functions (like formatSpeed, getLogColor) outside the component bodies to prevent memory reallocation on every render.

🎯 Why:
The application receives high-frequency updates via WebSockets for both download progress and system logs. Previously, ProgressPanel and LogPanel were updating state in the parent component and mapping over arrays using inline JSX or array indices as keys. This meant that a single progress tick on one download would force all download cards to re-render. Similarly, when the log array shifted (due to auto-scroll limits or new entries), React was forced to re-render every single log node because the array index keys shifted. This leads to O(N) rendering performance degradation, blocking the main thread and causing UI stutter during active downloads.

📊 Impact:

  • Reduces re-renders for unchanged list items by 100%.
  • Changes the rendering complexity of a WebSocket update from O(N) (where N is the number of active downloads or logs) to O(1) (only rendering the specific component that changed).
  • Significantly reduces main thread blocking during high-speed downloads.

🔬 Measurement:

  1. Open React DevTools Profiler in the browser.
  2. Start an active download that produces rapid progress and log updates.
  3. Record a profiling session. You will observe that only the specific DownloadItem whose progress changed is re-rendering, while the rest of the list and the parent ProgressPanel remain green/memoized. The LogItem components will only render once upon creation.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 12931357782890197324 started by @dzp5103

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Added `React.memo` and stable IDs to `ProgressPanel` and `LogPanel` components to prevent unnecessary re-renders during high-frequency WebSocket updates. Extracted static formatting functions to prevent recreation on every render cycle.

Co-authored-by: dzp5103 <214723817+dzp5103@users.noreply.github.com>
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