feat: debounce message draft state updates to reduce zustand/immer store writes on Messages page

src/components/PageComponents/Messages/MessageInput.tsx

@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
+import { debounce } from "@app/core/utils/debounce";
 import { Button } from "@components/UI/Button.tsx";
 import { Input } from "@components/UI/Input.tsx";
 import { useDevice } from "@core/stores/deviceStore.ts";
 import type { Types } from "@meshtastic/js";
 import { SendIcon } from "lucide-react";
+import { useCallback, useState, useMemo } from "react";
+
+
 
 export interface MessageInputProps {
   to: Types.Destination;
@@ -20,10 +24,15 @@ export const MessageInput = ({
     setMessageDraft,
     hardware,
   } = useDevice();
-
   const myNodeNum = hardware.myNodeNum;
+  const [localDraft, setLocalDraft] = useState(messageDraft);
 
-  const sendText = async (message: string) => {
+  const debouncedSetMessageDraft = useMemo(
+    () => debounce(setMessageDraft, 300),
+    [setMessageDraft]
+  );
+
+  const sendText = useCallback(async (message: string) => {
     await connection
       ?.sendText(message, to, true, channel)
       .then((id) =>
@@ -46,6 +55,12 @@ export const MessageInput = ({
           e.error,
         ),
       );
+  }, [channel, connection, myNodeNum, setMessageState, to]);
+
+  const handleInputChange = (e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
+    const newValue = e.target.value;
+    setLocalDraft(newValue);
+    debouncedSetMessageDraft(newValue);
   };
 
   return (
@@ -54,7 +69,8 @@ export const MessageInput = ({
         className="w-full"
         onSubmit={(e) => {
           e.preventDefault();
-          sendText(messageDraft);
+          sendText(localDraft);
+          setLocalDraft("");
           setMessageDraft("");
         }}
       >
@@ -64,8 +80,8 @@ export const MessageInput = ({
               autoFocus={true}
               minLength={1}
               placeholder="Enter Message"
-              value={messageDraft}
+              value={localDraft}
-              onChange={(e) => setMessageDraft(e.target.value)}
+              onChange={handleInputChange}
             />
           </span>
           <Button type="submit">
@@ -75,4 +91,4 @@ export const MessageInput = ({
       </form>
     </div>
   );
-};
+};

src/core/utils/debounce.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+type Callback<Args extends unknown[]> = (...args: Args) => void;
+
+export function debounce<Args extends unknown[]>(
+  callback: Callback<Args>,
+  wait: number
+): Callback<Args> {
+  let timeoutId: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>;
+
+  return (...args: Args) => {
+    clearTimeout(timeoutId);
+    timeoutId = setTimeout(() => callback(...args), wait);
+  };
+}