fix: stop the search field from freezing while typing in text editor - #20094
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Typing in the text editor search field re-rendered every row on every keystroke, which made the field freeze on apps with many texts. Deleting characters was worst, since each backspace widened the filter and remounted large parts of the list. The search field now updates immediately while the actual search is debounced by 300 ms, and the text list only re-renders when the search query or the texts change. - Keep the input value in local state and debounce the propagation to searchQuery, so intermediate states never reach the list. - Memoize TextList, with useCallback on removeEntry/updateEntryId and useMemo on resourceRows so the memoization actually holds. Debouncing alone did not help, because updating the input still re-rendered every row. - Pass replace: true to setSearchParams, so searching no longer adds one history entry per character. Measured with 400 texts, typing six characters: 2449 ms -> 422 ms, of which 191 ms is test harness overhead. Clearing the field: 306 ms -> 16 ms. Mounting the full list is unchanged and still costly on large apps. That needs pagination or virtualisation and is left for a separate change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe text editor now updates the search field immediately and applies the external search query after a 300-millisecond debounce. Clearing search cancels pending updates. Search changes replace the current browser history entry. Text list rendering uses memoisation. ChangesText search flow
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The search field can overwrite a query changed through external navigation with stale text after the debounce delay, leaving the displayed query and results incorrect. Cancel the pending update and add a regression test before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SearchControl
participant TextEditor
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participant BrowserHistory
SearchControl->>TextEditor: onChange event
TextEditor->>TextEditor: update local input value
TextEditor->>useDebounce: schedule external query update
useDebounce->>BrowserHistory: update query after debounce
TextEditor->>useDebounce: cancel pending update when search is cleared
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src/Designer/frontend/packages/text-editor/src/TextEditor.tsx (1)
45-45: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueReplace repeated empty-query literals with a named constant.
Lines 45, 81, and 82 use the same empty search-query value. Export a descriptive constant from
constants.tsand use it at all three locations.As per coding guidelines, avoid hard-coded numbers and strings; use meaningful, descriptive names.
Also applies to: 80-82
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In `@src/Designer/frontend/packages/text-editor/src/TextEditor.tsx`:
- Around line 80-83: Update useDebounce and clearSearch so clearing the search
cancels or invalidates any pending debounced callback, preventing an old query
from being restored after the inputs are reset. Add a regression test covering
clearSearch before the debounce interval expires.
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`@src/Designer/frontend/packages/text-editor/src/TextEditor.tsx` at line 45:
Covered by the same stale-update cancellation and input synchronization
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In `@src/Designer/frontend/packages/text-editor/src/TextEditor.tsx`:
- Line 45: Define and export a descriptive empty-search-query constant in
constants.ts, then update the searchInputValue initialization and the locations
around setSearchQuery at lines 80–82 to use it instead of repeated empty-query
literals.
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Clicking "New text" while the debounced search was still pending cleared the field, but the pending callback then restored the old query in the URL 300 ms later. The search field also kept its old value if the search query was changed from the outside. - Add cancelDebounce to useDebounce and call it when clearing the search. The addition is purely additive, so the eleven other callers are unaffected. - Sync the search field when the searchQuery prop changes externally. Both cases are covered by regression tests that fail without the fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@src/Designer/frontend/packages/text-editor/src/TextEditor.tsx`:
- Around line 60-62: Update the effect keyed by searchQuery to cancel any
pending handleSearchChange debounce before synchronizing searchInputValue,
preventing stale input from overwriting an external query; add a regression test
covering an external query change before the 300 ms debounce expires.
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| const handleSearchChange = (event: ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>): void => { |
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Maybe here if the user just remove a letter or click close x we do not need debounce? something like:
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| const handleSearchChange = (event: ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>): void => { | |
| const handleSearchChange = (event: ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>): void => { | |
| const { value } = event.target; | |
| if (value === '') { | |
| clearSearch(); | |
| return; | |
| } | |
| setSearchInputValue(value); | |
| debounce(() => setSearchQuery(value)); |
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Looks fine , i tested aarsregnskap-bank-202404 app locally , this one has many text , but i find that the page freezes when removing last letter , maybe you allready mention this in Slack , and this is out of typing issue.
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Issue: https://digdir.slack.com/archives/C09BLD1CRK8/p1787231379057949
Typing in the text editor search field re-rendered every row on every keystroke, which made the field freeze on apps with many texts. Deleting characters was worst, since each backspace widened the filter and remounted large parts of the list.
The search field now updates immediately while the actual search is debounced by 300 ms, and the text list only re-renders when the search query or the texts change.
Measured with 400 texts, typing six characters: 2449 ms -> 422 ms, of which 191 ms is test harness overhead. Clearing the field: 306 ms -> 16 ms.
Mounting the full list is unchanged and still costly on large apps. That needs pagination or virtualisation and is left for a separate change.
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