import React, { useEffect, useRef } from 'react'; type Effect = ( changes?: number[], previousDeps?: T, currentDeps?: T, ) => void | (() => void); const diffTwoDeps = (deps1?: React.DependencyList, deps2?: React.DependencyList) => { //Let's do a reference equality check on 2 dependency list. //If deps1 is defined, we iterate over deps1 and do comparison on each element with equivalent element from deps2 //As this func is used only in this hook, we assume 2 deps always have same length. return deps1 ? deps1 .map((_ele, idx) => (!Object.is(deps1[idx], deps2?.[idx]) ? idx : -1)) .filter((ele) => ele >= 0) : deps2 ? deps2.map((_ele, idx) => idx) : []; }; export const useTrackedEffect = ( effect: Effect, deps?: [...T], ) => { const previousDepsRef = useRef(); useEffect(() => { const changes = diffTwoDeps(previousDepsRef.current, deps); const previousDeps = previousDepsRef.current; previousDepsRef.current = deps; return effect(changes, previousDeps, deps); }, deps); }; export default useTrackedEffect;