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feat: add new skills to skills-lock.json and update use-pixel-heat component
- Added new skills: find-skills, frontend-ui-engineering, and vercel-react-best-practices to skills-lock.json.
- Updated use-pixel-heat.ts to import both animate and AnimationPlaybackControls from motion for improved animation handling.
2026-08-08 16:08:54 +03:00

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Hoist RegExp Creation LOW-MEDIUM avoids recreation javascript, regexp, optimization, memoization

Hoist RegExp Creation

Don't create RegExp inside render. Hoist to module scope or memoize with useMemo().

Incorrect (new RegExp every render):

function Highlighter({ text, query }: Props) {
  const regex = new RegExp(`(${query})`, 'gi')
  const parts = text.split(regex)
  return <>{parts.map((part, i) => ...)}</>
}

Correct (memoize or hoist):

const EMAIL_REGEX = /^[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+\.[^\s@]+$/

function Highlighter({ text, query }: Props) {
  const regex = useMemo(
    () => new RegExp(`(${escapeRegex(query)})`, 'gi'),
    [query]
  )
  const parts = text.split(regex)
  return <>{parts.map((part, i) => ...)}</>
}

Warning (global regex has mutable state):

Global regex (/g) has mutable lastIndex state:

const regex = /foo/g
regex.test('foo')  // true, lastIndex = 3
regex.test('foo')  // false, lastIndex = 0