`react-doctor/ink-prefer-use-animation`

Animation loop implemented with setInterval

Category: Performance
Severity: warn
Source: oxlint-plugin-react-doctor
Framework: global
Enabled when: Ink >= 7.0.0
Tags: ink
Default: Enabled

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Confirm the reported code matches react-doctor/ink-prefer-use-animation. Compare it with the Before example and verify the same API, framework, and execution context. Treat it as a false positive only when one of those conditions differs.

Compare the code

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Reported pattern

import { Text } from "ink";
import { useEffect, useState } from "react";

const App = () => {
  const [frame, setFrame] = useState(0);
  useEffect(() => {
    const timer = setInterval(() => {
      setFrame((value) => value + 1);
    }, 80);
    return () => clearInterval(timer);
  }, []);
  return <Text>{frame}</Text>;
};

Corrected pattern

import { Text, useAnimation } from "ink";

const App = () => {
  const { frame } = useAnimation({ interval: 80 });
  return <Text>{frame}</Text>;
};

How to fix

Use the corrected pattern as a reference. Preserve behavior that the rule does not require you to change.

Copyable fix prompt

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Fix every confirmed react-doctor/ink-prefer-use-animation diagnostic in the current repository. Required change: - Use Ink's shared useAnimation() scheduler and automatic unmount cleanup.

Reference transformation:Before:

import { Text } from "ink";
import { useEffect, useState } from "react";

const App = () => {
  const [frame, setFrame] = useState(0);
  useEffect(() => {
    const timer = setInterval(() => {
      setFrame((value) => value + 1);
    }, 80);
    return () => clearInterval(timer);
  }, []);
  return <Text>{frame}</Text>;
};

After:

import { Text, useAnimation } from "ink";

const App = () => {
  const { frame } = useAnimation({ interval: 80 });
  return <Text>{frame}</Text>;
};

Constraints: - Confirm the reported code matches the Before pattern. - Make the smallest change that fixes the root cause. - Preserve behavior and interfaces unrelated to this diagnostic. - Reuse existing project components, utilities, and conventions. - Do not introduce render-phase side effects, render-phase state updates, or Hooks rule violations. - Preserve resource ownership and cleanup. Do not move work into a hotter render or frame path. - Adapt identifiers and framework details instead of copying blindly. - Do not disable the rule or suppress matching code. - Confirm this rule is enabled for the project: Ink >= 7.0.0. Verification: - Run focused tests for the changed behavior. - Run React Doctor and confirm this diagnostic no longer appears. - Report the files changed and any checks you could not run.

More Performance rules from the rules reference:

react-doctor/js-async-reduce-without-awaited-acc: Await the accumulator inside an async .reduce reducer: const acc = await previous; ...; return acc;
react-doctor/js-batch-dom-css: Batch DOM/CSS reads and writes — interleaving them inside a loop causes layout thrashing. Read first, then write
react-doctor/js-cache-property-access: Hoist the deep member access into a const at the top of the loop body: `const { x, y } = obj.deeply.nested`
react-doctor/js-cache-storage: Cache repeated `localStorage`/`sessionStorage` reads in a local variable — each access serializes/deserializes
react-doctor/js-combine-iterations: Combine `.map().filter()` (or similar chains) into a single pass with `.reduce()` or a `for...of` loop to avoid iterating the array twice

react-doctor/ink-prefer-use-animation