How to use right, reselect in react-redux aplication

Question

I have an application where user can search data depending by his input. In my application i try to use reselect.

    import React, { useEffect } from "react";
    import { useDispatch, useSelector } from "react-redux";
    import { searchPersonAction } from "./store";

    const Search = () => {
      const dispatch = useDispatch();
      const selector = useSelector((s) => s);
      const search = (e) => {
        const txt = e.target.value;
        dispatch(searchPersonAction(txt));
      };
      return (
        <div>
          <input onChange={search} placeholder="search" />
          <ul>
            {selector.name.map((p) => (
              <li key={p.name}>{p.name}</li>
            ))}
          </ul>
        </div>
      );
    };

    export default Search;

In my store i have an array of persons like this:

    export const persons = [
        {
            name:"jack",
            age: 2
        },
        {
            name:"Jim",
            age: 14
        },
        {
            name:"July",
            age: 92
        },
        {
            name:"Bill",
            age: 1
        },
        {
            name:"Carl",
            age: 72
        },
    ]

Now, when user search something, in the list appears the results according to the name which was searched by the user.
Question: Is the reselect usefull (protects from to many re-renders) in my case or not? Or using useSelector, in the case above is enought?

Answer 1

I don't think reslect here will be necessary. You can use useMemo to achieve the same result.

    import React, { useEffect, useMemo } from "react";
    import { useDispatch, useSelector } from "react-redux";
    import { searchPersonAction } from "./store";

    const Search = () => {
      const dispatch = useDispatch();
      const persons = useSelector((s) => s.persons);

      const [query, updateQuery] = useState('');
      const searchedPersons = useMemo(() => persons.filter(p => p.name.includes(query)), [query]);

      const search = (e) => {
        updateQuery(e.target.value);
      };
      return (
        <div>
          <input onChange={search} placeholder="search" />
          <ul>
            {searchedPersons.map((p) => (
              <li key={p.name}>{p.name}</li>
            ))}
          </ul>
        </div>
      );
    };

    export default Search;

Answer 2

reselect will be useful if you get array or object from store for example:

store

state = {
    persons: [
        {
            name:"Jack",
            age: 2
        },
        {
            name:"Jane",
            age: 14
        },
    ]
}

if you used selector from react-redux and if your typed 'J' in the search field and used searchPersonAction action, then it will change the array of persons in the store, but array stayed the same.

state = {
    persons: [
        {
            name:"Jack",
            age: 2
        },
        {
            name:"Jane",
            age: 14
        },
    ]
}

then you receive rerender regardless of whether the data in the array has changed or not.

But if you use reselect and when your typed 'Ja' in the search field, it will be the same array, then you will not get a repeated render, because reselect will memoize data