4 Ways To Profile Your React App

React is fast in comparison with traditional web applications when your code is built right mainly due to the usage of the VDOM concept, however, that doesn’t mean you cannot write a memory leak or you shouldn’t improve performance. In fact, a good development habit is to save a performance profile of your App and compare it every time you add a new feature.

In this article, I will share with you four solid methods to profile your React App.

The memory in JS is managed automatically by the Garbage Collector (GC). However, It’s still easy to cause a memory leak.

The garbage collection (GC) is the process of automatic memory management. It’s based on collecting memory that is not needed anymore.

Awareness is the key to ensuring your App is performing well. You should continuously measure how a new feature you added is performing and the impact it has on your existing App. In the previous article, I showed how to automate our development and deployment process. Automating performance tests should also be taken into account when publishing your App.

How can I profile my React App?

There are plenty of tools that can help get the job done. Here are my top go-to options I refer to when handling performance issues;