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A landing that releases a held count from the parent's state re-renders it all: let the button hold its own count

Rule

If the frame where a flying item lands in a button is long, let the button hold its old count itself (hold at take-off, land on arrival) so the landing renders that button alone.

Snippet
// before: the parent holds the count back while the copy flies, then releases it
const [held, setHeld] = useState<number | null>(null);   // in the big component
<BagButton count={held ?? bagCount} />
// after: the button registers hold/land and keeps the old number itself
const [heldAt, setHeldAt] = useState<number | null>(null); // in BagButton
const target = { hold: () => setHeldAt(shownRef.current), land: () => setHeldAt(null) };
// take-off: target.hold(); landing (from the worklet's end callback): target.land()
Check

count renders in the landing frame: only the button renders, and that frame drops from about 56 ms to about 16 ms.

Applies to

react@>=19.2 <20, react-native-reanimated@>=4.5 <5

I assumed

releasing the held count from the component's own state at landing was cheap, since only a number changed.

What happened

releasing the held count from Turnrail's state re-rendered the whole component in the landing frame: 56 ms.

The fix

the button holds its own count (hold() at take-off, land() on landing), so a landing renders that button alone (16 ms); the copy stays mounted, hidden, rather than unmounting.

Evidence

4 flights in light and dark, each starting within 0.02 pt of its picture and ending 0.0 pt from the button's centre, never below full opacity; the count rolled 1 → 2 over 260 ms (commit 5d7917d).

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