Video: React Compiler - Understanding Idiomatic React (React Forget)

React Forget is not open-sourced yet because Meta is still refining and testing it internally. They want to ensure it meets high standards for quality, documentation, and support before releasing it to the open-source community.

Yes, the long-term goal of React Forget is to eliminate the need for useMemo, react.memo, and useCallback by automatically handling memoization.

No, React Forget is not currently open-sourced. However, Meta plans to open-source it once it has been sufficiently refined and tested internally.

React Forget complements React server components by optimizing the client-side developer experience, making interactive parts of apps faster and improving overall performance.

There is no specific release date for React Forget. Meta is currently refining and testing it internally and plans to release it as an open-source project once it meets their high standards for quality and documentation.

Yes, React Forget will be part of the build pipeline and will require a small dependency and an additional runtime API in React. It will be available in a future stable version of React.

React Forget is a compiler developed by Meta that automatically memoizes your React components and hooks to improve performance by reducing unnecessary re-renders.

React Forget uses escape analysis and type inference to determine when to memoize components and hooks. It only memoizes values that make it out of the function and avoids memoizing primitives to prevent unnecessary re-renders.

The name 'React Forget' is part of Meta's policy to name projects with F-words that are puns. 'Remember' does not fit this naming convention.

React Forget improves performance by automatically determining when to memoize components and hooks, reducing unnecessary re-renders without the need for developers to manually add useMemo or react.memo.