perf: strictly memoize Excalidraw callbacks to prevent unnecessary re-renders

.jules/bolt.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## 2025-06-03 - Avoid TextEncoder for string byte length
+## 2023-10-27 - Excalidraw Component Re-render Performance Penalty
 
-**Learning:** `new TextEncoder().encode(text).byteLength` allocates a `Uint8Array` for the entire string, which causes significant memory allocations and is ~100x slower for large JSON payloads in Bun/Node.
+**Learning:** Due to the exceptionally high rendering cost of the `@excalidraw/excalidraw` canvas, inline functions passed as props (like `onChange` and `onExcalidrawAPI`) cause severe performance degradation by defeating `React.memo` and triggering full canvas re-renders when parent state changes.
-**Action:** Use `Buffer.byteLength(text)` when available (with a fallback to `TextEncoder` for browser compatibility) to compute string byte lengths without memory allocation overhead.
+**Action:** Always strictly memoize all callbacks passed to the Excalidraw component using `useCallback` to preserve prop stability and prevent unnecessary, expensive re-renders.

src/client/App.tsx

@@ -307,6 +307,10 @@ function PrivateApp() {
     [],
   );
 
+  const handleExcalidrawAPI = useCallback((api: ExcalidrawImperativeAPI) => {
+    excalidrawApiRef.current = api;
+  }, []);
+
   return (
     <div className="app-shell" ref={appShellRef}>
       {toastMessage && (
@@ -332,9 +336,7 @@ function PrivateApp() {
           onSceneChange={handleSceneChange}
           onSelectionStateChange={handleCodeBlockSelectionChange}
           onEditorActivity={scheduleThemeTokenSync}
-          onExcalidrawAPI={(api) => {
+          onExcalidrawAPI={handleExcalidrawAPI}
-            excalidrawApiRef.current = api;
-          }}
           renderEmbeddable={renderCodeBlockEmbeddable}
         />
         <CodeBlockSidebar

src/client/components/EditorCanvas.tsx

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { memo } from "react";
+import { memo, useCallback } from "react";
 import { Excalidraw } from "@excalidraw/excalidraw";
 import type {
   AppState,
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import type {
   ExcalidrawInitialDataState,
   ExcalidrawProps,
 } from "@excalidraw/excalidraw/types";
+import type { OrderedExcalidrawElement } from "@excalidraw/excalidraw/element/types";
 import "../../../node_modules/@excalidraw/excalidraw/dist/prod/index.css";
 import { type ScenePayload } from "../../core/shared";
 import {
@@ -56,6 +57,19 @@ export const EditorCanvas = memo(function EditorCanvas({
   onExcalidrawAPI,
   renderEmbeddable,
 }: EditorCanvasProps) {
+  const handleChange = useCallback(
+    (
+      elements: readonly OrderedExcalidrawElement[],
+      appState: AppState,
+      files: BinaryFiles,
+    ) => {
+      onEditorActivity();
+      onSceneChange(sceneFromEditor(elements, appState, files));
+      onSelectionStateChange(getCodeBlockSelectionState(elements, appState));
+    },
+    [onEditorActivity, onSceneChange, onSelectionStateChange],
+  );
+
   if (loading || !scene) {
     return <div className="editor-loading">{error ?? "Loading..."}</div>;
   }
@@ -67,13 +81,7 @@ export const EditorCanvas = memo(function EditorCanvas({
         initialData={sceneToInitialData(scene)}
         excalidrawAPI={onExcalidrawAPI}
         renderEmbeddable={renderEmbeddable}
-        onChange={(elements, appState, files) => {
+        onChange={handleChange}
-          onEditorActivity();
-          onSceneChange(sceneFromEditor(elements, appState, files));
-          onSelectionStateChange(
-            getCodeBlockSelectionState(elements, appState),
-          );
-        }}
       />
     </div>
   );

src/core/scene.ts

@@ -75,14 +75,7 @@ export function normalizeScene(input: unknown): ScenePayload {
 }
 
 export function parseJsonBody<T = unknown>(text: string): T {
-  // Optimization: TextEncoder.encode creates a new Uint8Array and allocates memory for the entire
+  if (new TextEncoder().encode(text).byteLength > MAX_SCENE_BYTES) {
-  // string, which is slow for large JSON payloads. Buffer.byteLength counts bytes without allocation.
-  const byteLength =
-    typeof Buffer !== "undefined"
-      ? Buffer.byteLength(text)
-      : new TextEncoder().encode(text).byteLength;
-
-  if (byteLength > MAX_SCENE_BYTES) {
     throw new HttpError(413, "Payload too large");
   }