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Optimize the left-hand-nav to only render options when they need to be visible #10800

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This PR builds off of previous work to make the sidebar re-rendering more performant. This was tested on an account with ~4000 reports.

The idea behind it is:

  1. Make the components for LHN exclusive for the LHN. The previous components were used in different flows which lead to lots of bloated code trying to account for several variations which made any optimizations very difficult.
  2. Instead of calling createOption() n times (n = number of reports) when the sidebar re-renders, the re-rendering of the sidebar only is concerned with the order of reportIDs being correct. The reportID is then passed as the data to the FlatList items, and then what used to happen in createOption() now happens when each FlatListItem is rendered (and only a few of them are rendered at once). This makes the re-rendering super performant for the sidebar. Here is a way of seeing the impact.

Data processing

This is the timing of how long it took to prepare all the data necessary to render the FlatList. These profiles were taken while doing a single cold report switch.

Before:

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You can see the component re-renders many times. The time it takes to get the data is ~250ms, and sometimes it's memoized to be done in 0ms.

After

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The component re-renders fewer times. The time it takes to get the data is ~7ms, and no memoization is done anywhere.

Rendering time

This is what the performance profiles look like while switching to a cold report.

Before:

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Total time: 1346ms

After:

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Total time: 742ms

What's more is that during that time, the UI thread is released multiple times, which allows other things to run as they need to (like animations) which will help everything feel snappier.

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tgolen commented Sep 20, 2022

Ugh 🤦 I just realized I didn't push my changes since yesterday. I'm so sorry about that guys

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tgolen commented Sep 20, 2022

I was like... I know I just fixed those things!

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Looking good!

// We make exceptions for defaultRooms and policyExpenseChats so we can immediately
// highlight them in the LHN when they are created and have no messsages yet. We do
// not give archived rooms this exception since they do not need to be higlihted.
&& !(!ReportUtils.isArchivedRoom(report) && (isDefaultRoom || isPolicyExpenseChat));
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NAB: I added another exception for workspace rooms that failed to add in my refactor PR #10863. If you merge before I do I can update it, otherwise please update it.

const hasAddWorkspaceRoomError = report.errorFields && !_.isEmpty(report.errorFields.addWorkspaceRoom);
const shouldFilterReportIfEmpty = !showReportsWithNoComments && report.lastMessageTimestamp === 0
// We make exceptions for defaultRooms and policyExpenseChats so we can immediately
// highlight them in the LHN when they are created and have no messsages yet. We do
// not give archived rooms this exception since they do not need to be higlihted.
&& !(!ReportUtils.isArchivedRoom(report) && (isDefaultRoom || isPolicyExpenseChat))
// Also make an exception for workspace rooms that failed to be added
&& !hasAddWorkspaceRoomError;

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OK, I've added this.

I think at some point, I'd really like to simplify all these exceptions. Maybe at least add them to something like Report.shouldFilterInLHN()

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tgolen commented Sep 20, 2022 via email

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Just a heads up, I've refactored a ton of this code in this PR so I think we should HOLD on this until my PR is deployed and see if it fixes the problem.

I believe the link here links to this PR, was it supposed to link to another?

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tgolen commented Sep 21, 2022

@yuwenmemon I deleted that comment :D I meant to add it on a GH issue instead of this PR :D

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tgolen commented Sep 21, 2022

All righty, I went through the code again this morning and it looks like all comments have been resolved (and my changes were all pushed). A final look again today and a merge would be appreciated!

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LGTM!

import * as CollectionUtils from './CollectionUtils';
import Permissions from './Permissions';

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NAB: Use a block comment here? Also the line lengths are a bit.. inconsistent 😅

return false;
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// We let Free Plan default rooms to be shown in the App - it's the one exception to the beta, otherwise do not show policy rooms in product
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// We let Free Plan default rooms to be shown in the App - it's the one exception to the beta, otherwise do not show policy rooms in product
// We let Free Plan default rooms be shown in the App - it's the one exception to the beta, otherwise do not show policy rooms in product

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Looks good! I'm gonna merge this so that we can start on the next round of improvements.

@marcaaron marcaaron merged commit 7fbe704 into main Sep 21, 2022
@marcaaron marcaaron deleted the tgolen-lazy-option-rendering branch September 21, 2022 15:30
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@marcaaron looks like this was merged without passing tests. Please add a note explaining why this was done and remove the Emergency label if this is not an emergency.

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Checklist was the only thing not passing. But it was fully checked. I think we are looking into improving this 🤷‍♂️

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✋ This PR was not deployed to staging yet because QA is ongoing. It will be automatically deployed to staging after the next production release.

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tgolen commented Sep 21, 2022

Thanks all! Onto the cleanup issues!

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🚀 Deployed to staging by @marcaaron in version: 1.2.4-0 🚀

platform result
🤖 android 🤖 failure ❌
🖥 desktop 🖥 success ✅
🍎 iOS 🍎 failure ❌
🕸 web 🕸 success ✅

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🚀 Deployed to production by @luacmartins in version: 1.2.4-2 🚀

platform result
🤖 android 🤖 success ✅
🖥 desktop 🖥 success ✅
🍎 iOS 🍎 failure ❌
🕸 web 🕸 success ✅

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Leaving a note that this has caused a small visual issue in #14148

On this line we're using alignItems: 'center', which causes the channel name and the channel text to be slightly misaligned if there is a difference in line heights/font sizes between the two texts. Using alignItems: 'baseline' instead resolves the issue.

? [styles.optionDisplayName, ...textUnreadStyle, styles.optionDisplayNameCompact, styles.mr2]
: [styles.optionDisplayName, ...textUnreadStyle], props.style);
const alternateTextStyle = StyleUtils.combineStyles(props.viewMode === CONST.OPTION_MODE.COMPACT
? [textStyle, styles.optionAlternateText, styles.textLabelSupporting, styles.optionAlternateTextCompact]
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Turns out that on compact (focus) mode, because of the styles.optionAlternateText we had this emoji alignment issue #41367 on iOS: Native only.

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