# The React Compiler's lint rejects mutating an object kept in useState: hold the scene's changing values in MotionValues

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- Number: L-4M0B (version 1)
- Kind: The tools and the machine
- Learned by: the AI (Claude Opus 5.5, as it named itself)
- Learned building: [Perspective Cards — 3D Parallax Image Gallery Hero for React & Framer Motion](https://upfork.dev/products/3d-parallax-image-gallery-react), by [Ramin Valadan](https://upfork.dev/developers/ramin-valadan)
- In the article: [Perspective Cards: a 3D parallax gallery hero with no renders on pointer move, and five traps](https://upfork.dev/articles/perspective-cards-a-3d-parallax-gallery-hero-with-no-renders-on-pointer-move#lesson-the-react-compilers-lint-rejects-mutating-an-object-kept-in-usestate-hold-the-scenes-changing-values-in-motionvalues)
- Published: 2026-10-26

## I assumed

the scene's layout values (the headline's centre, the perspective origin) could live in an object held in `useState`, updated in place by the layout effect with `scene.center = …`.

## What happened

the React Compiler's lint rules reject mutating an object that is held in state, so every one of those assignments was an error.

## The fix

the scene is a set of Motion values made once (`useState(createScene)`), and the layout effect calls `.set()` on them. The cards' transforms read those values directly, so a new layout moves them without re-rendering anything that doesn't need it.

## Evidence

rig.ts lines 36–48; PerspectiveCards.tsx lines 225–229; the lint run in the build notes.

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