javascript-performance

A set of JavaScript rules for finding common causes of slow applications, especially unnecessary state updates and repeated component work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing React or React Native code for avoidable re-renders, expensive calculations, and list performance issues.
Why use it?
It points out code patterns that can trigger extra user-interface updates and suggests ways to reduce them.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/ivangrynenko/cursorrules/javascript-performance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivangrynenko/cursorrules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 198 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00198
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00099
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00020

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2055c06cc248, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

javascript-performance scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.cursor/rules/javascript-performance.mdc · 34 lines

What it actually says

JavaScript Performance Optimization

actions:

  • type: enforce conditions:

    • pattern: "\buseState\(([^)]*)\)" message: "Avoid unnecessary state updates."

    • pattern: "React\.memo\(" message: "Consider using React.memo() to optimize component re-renders."

    • pattern: "\b\(\)\s*=>\s*{" message: "Avoid using anonymous functions in render methods."

  • type: suggest message: | Performance tips:

    • Use memoization for expensive calculations.
    • Optimize FlatList with performance props.
    • Minimize unnecessary re-renders.

metadata: priority: high version: 1.0

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 34 lines · 198 tokens per session scan A 2055c06cc248

Subscribe to this mod's changes

javascript-performance is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ivangrynenko/cursorrules (87 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 198 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.