Fixing FlatList Lag with useCallback in React Native

spent an hour debugging a laggy FlatList last week before i realized i'd been making the same mistake for months i was passing an inline arrow function to renderItem. looks fine. works fine in small lists. absolutely kills performance when the list grows because every parent re-render creates a new function reference and React thinks every single item changed. fixed it with useCallback in like 2 minutes. list went smooth instantly. not sharing this because it's groundbreaking. sharing it because i've seen this exact thing in three different codebases this year and nobody noticed until the list hit 100+ items. if your FlatList feels sluggish and you can't figure out why - check your renderItem first. might save you an hour. #ReactNative #MobileDev #JavaScript

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