React Component Benchmark

This project aims to provide a method for gathering benchmarks of component tree mount, update, and unmount timings.

Please note that the values returned are estimates. Since this project does not hook into the React renderer directly, the values gathered are not 100% accurate and may vary slightly because they're taken from a wrapping component. That being said, running a large sample set should give you a confident benchmark metric.

Motivation

Historically, React has provided react-addons-perf in order to help gain insight into the performance of mounting, updating, and unmounting components. Unfortunately, as of React 16, it has been deprecated. Additionally, before deprecation, it was not usable in production React builds, making it less useful for many applications.

Usage

See the examples directory for ideas on how you might integrate this into your own project, whether in your user-interface or your automated tests.

Quick Start

import { Benchmark, BenchmarkType } from 'react-component-benchmark';

function MyComponentBenchmark() {
	const ref = React.useRef();

	const handleComplete = React.useCallback((results) => {
		console.log(results);
	}, []);

	const handleStart = () => {
		ref.start();
	};

	return (
		<div>
			<button onClick={handleStart}>Run</button>
			<Benchmark
				component={MyComponent}
				componentProps={componentProps}
				onComplete={handleComplete}
				ref={ref}
				samples={50}
				timeout={10000}
				type={BenchmarkType.MOUNT}
			/>
		</div>
	);
}

In tests

See examples/tests for various test integrations.

Build a UI

• Demo: https://react-component-benchmark.vercel.app/
  • See, edit, and fork the code from paularmstrong/react-component-benchmark-example or codesandbox
  • You can also do the same using Preact! https://codesandbox.io/s/react-component-benchmark-preact-69inw

Benchmark props

key	type	description
component	typeof React.Component	The component that you would like to benchmark
componentProps	object	Properties to be given to component when rendering
includeLayout	boolean	Estimate the amount of time that the browser's rendering engine requires to layout the rendered HTML. Only available for 'mount' and 'update' benchmark types. Default: false
onComplete	(x: BenchResultsType) => void	Receives the benchmark results when the benchmarking is complete
samples	number	Samples to run (default 50)
timeout	number	Amount of time in milliseconds to stop running (default 10000)
type	string	One of 'mount', 'update', or 'unmount'. Also available from BenchmarkType.

Results

Note: All times and timestamps are in milliseconds. High resolution times provided when available.

key	type	description
...	...ComputedResult	All values from the ComputedResult table
startTime	number	Timestamp of when the run started
endTime	number	Timestamp of when the run completed
runTime	number	Amount of time that it took to run all samples.
sampleCount	number	The number of samples actually run. May be less than requested if the timeout was hit.
samples	Array<{ start, end, elapsed }>	Raw sample data
layout	ComputedResult	The benchmark results for the browser rendering engine layout, if available (see includeLayout property)

ComputedResult

key	type	description
max	number	Maximum time elapsed
min	number	Minimum time elapsed
median	number	Median time elapsed
mean	number	Mean time elapsed
stdDev	number	Standard deviation of all elapsed times
p70	number	70th percentile for time elapsed: mean + stdDev
p95	number	95th percentile for time elapsed: mean + (stdDev * 2)
p99	number	99th percentile for time elapsed: mean + (stdDev * 3)