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Explanation of Change

TransactionItemRowRBR mounts for every transaction row and creates 6 Onyx subscriptions per instance — even when there are no violations to display. With 50 rows, that's 300 wasted Onyx subscriptions. Additionally, TypeCell subscribes to the entire CARD_LIST collection in every row, so any card change re-renders all 50 TypeCells.

This PR makes three changes:

  1. Wraps TransactionItemRowRBR with an early-return guard that returns null when there are no violations or missing field errors, preventing 6 useOnyx hooks from executing unnecessarily
  2. Narrows TypeCell's CARD_LIST subscription to a single card via a selector, so only the relevant TypeCell re-renders when a card changes
  3. Removes dead filteredViolations useMemo that returned violations unchanged

Measured results:
491ms → 460ms (-6.3% ManualNavigateToReportsTab)
Onyx subscriptions reduced by 78% (138 → 30).
At 50 transactions (~10% with violations), projected 90% reduction in RBR-related Onyx subscriptions (300 → ~30).

Fixed Issues

$ #82865
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  1. Open Search → Expenses tab
  • All columns render correctly (type icon, merchant, amount, date, category, tag, etc.)
  • Checkbox selection works
  • Clicking a row navigates to the transaction
  1. Open a report with transactions that have violations
  • Red brick road (RBR) violation messages display correctly for transactions with violations
  • No red dots appear for transactions without violations
  1. Verify TypeCell icons
  • Card transactions show credit card icon
  • Cash transactions show cash icon
  • Distance transactions show car icon
  1. Open Search → Expenses in narrow layout (mobile/small window)
  • Type column shows text instead of icon
  • RBR messages display correctly

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if (!violations?.length && !missingFieldError) {
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P1 Badge Do not suppress RBR when only transaction errors exist

This early return hides valid red-brick-road messages for transactions that have transaction.errors (or thread action errors) but no violations and no missingFieldError. ViolationsUtils.getRBRMessages() explicitly builds messages from those error objects, so in cases like failed receipt upload/save where violations are empty, the row now renders nothing and users lose the only visible failure feedback.

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Right, I need to modify the PR

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PR doesn’t need product input as a performance PR. Unassigning and unsubscribing myself.

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const [cardList] = useOnyx(ONYXKEYS.CARD_LIST);
const cardSelector = useCallback((cards: OnyxEntry<CardList>): OnyxEntry<Card> => cards?.[transactionItem.cardID ?? CONST.DEFAULT_NUMBER_ID], [transactionItem.cardID]);
const [card] = useOnyx(ONYXKEYS.CARD_LIST, {selector: cardSelector});
const cardList = transactionItem.cardID && card ? {[transactionItem.cardID]: card} : undefined;
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Maybe we can just update getTransactionType to pass only the necessary card there, instead of the cardList?

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Good suggestion! Changing getTransactionType to accept a single Card instead of CardList would clean this up, but it has 6+ callers across the codebase (TransactionPreviewUtils, TransactionPreview, IOU/Duplicate, SplitExpensePage, tests). I'd prefer to do that as a follow-up to keep this PR focused on the perf optimization.

function TypeCell({transactionItem, shouldUseNarrowLayout, shouldShowTooltip}: TransactionDataCellProps) {
const {translate} = useLocalize();
const [cardList] = useOnyx(ONYXKEYS.CARD_LIST);
const cardSelector = useCallback((cards: OnyxEntry<CardList>): OnyxEntry<Card> => cards?.[transactionItem.cardID ?? CONST.DEFAULT_NUMBER_ID], [transactionItem.cardID]);
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let's make this compiler compliant, can we remove the selector to live outside of React? otherwise, it should be ok to not call useCallback.

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You're right, removed


TransactionItemRowRBRInner.displayName = 'TransactionItemRowRBRInner';

const MemoizedTransactionItemRowRBRInner = React.memo(TransactionItemRowRBRInner);
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why use manual memo? Compiler should handle that.

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You're right, I thought React Compiler can't do memo for a whole component, asked Opus to be sure and he agreed on that, but now he has a different opinion 😂


const MemoizedTransactionItemRowRBRInner = React.memo(TransactionItemRowRBRInner);

function TransactionItemRowRBR({transaction, violations, report, containerStyles, missingFieldError}: TransactionItemRowRBRProps) {
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you could make this component more simple by only passing in violations and missingFieldError, and rendering null or children like that:

function RowRBRGuard({x, children}) {
	if (x) {
		return null;
	}

	return children;
}
<RowRBRGuard x={}>
	<RowRBR transaction={} ... />
</RowRBR>

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The Guard pattern with children would also prevent mounting. However, it would require duplicating props (once to Guard for the check, once to Inner for rendering), while the current wrapper encapsulates both concerns in a single component with a cleaner call site. The wrapper also needs 1 useOnyx to check thread action errors (not available from props), which would be needed in a Guard too. Happy to refactor if you feel strongly about it though.

…d refining TypeCell logic for better error handling and performance.
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const transactionThreadId = reportActions ? getIOUActionForTransactionID(reportActions, transaction.transactionID)?.childReportID : undefined;
const [transactionThreadActions] = useOnyx(`${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT_ACTIONS}${transactionThreadId}`);

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P1 Badge Preserve thread-error detection without reportActions prop

This guard now derives transactionThreadId only from the optional reportActions prop, so when callers do not pass that prop (I checked src/components/MoneyRequestReportView/MoneyRequestReportTransactionItem.tsx:138-158 and src/pages/UnreportedExpenseListItem.tsx:74-90), hasThreadErrors stays false and the component can return null before mounting TransactionItemRowRBRInner. In that case, thread-only report action errors are never discovered or rendered, even though they were previously shown via the inner component’s Onyx subscriptions.

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function TypeCell({transactionItem, shouldUseNarrowLayout, shouldShowTooltip}: TransactionDataCellProps) {
const {translate} = useLocalize();
const [cardList] = useOnyx(ONYXKEYS.CARD_LIST);
const cardSelector = (cards: OnyxEntry<CardList>): OnyxEntry<Card> => cards?.[transactionItem.cardID ?? CONST.DEFAULT_NUMBER_ID];
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i think that selector is used in deps array for useMemo inside useOnyx
i think we need to wrap this in useCallback?

`
const selector = useMemo(() => {
if (!selectorProp || !shouldUseSnapshot) {
return selectorProp;
}

    return (data: OnyxValue<OnyxKey> | undefined) => selectorProp(getKeyData(data as SearchResults, key));
}, [selectorProp, shouldUseSnapshot, key]);`

};

function TransactionItemRowRBR({transaction, violations, report, containerStyles, missingFieldError}: TransactionItemRowRBRProps) {
type TransactionItemRowRBRProps = TransactionItemRowRBRInnerProps & {
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I understand the performance gains, do we really have to pass in this whole object though? New [] will always pop up here and there. I think this is just a violating of our clean react patterns' rules.

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