Using Efficient Effects

by skydoves

Using Efficient Effects is a Frontend skill for Claude Code, published by skydoves in compose-performance-skills.

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Install Using Efficient Effects

Copy Using Efficient Effects into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/skydoves/compose-performance-skills/tree/main/side-effects/using-efficient-effects ~/.claude/skills/using-efficient-effects

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/skydoves/compose-performance-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: side-effects/using-efficient-effects/SKILL.md in skydoves/compose-performance-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/using-efficient-effects
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Frontend — 567 skills

What Using Efficient Effects does

Using Efficient Effects helps choose the cheapest correct Jetpack Compose effect API for a given job. It covers LaunchedEffect, DisposableEffect, SideEffect, rememberUpdatedState, RememberedEffect, and ViewModelStoreScope when effects restart, leak, or capture stale callbacks.

Using Efficient Effects is cataloged under Frontend on DirSkills. Using Efficient Effects comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, android, claude, claude-code and compose.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Using Efficient Effects — pick the cheapest correct effect API

Compose ships three effect APIs by default: LaunchedEffect (coroutine, restarts on key change), DisposableEffect (setup/teardown with a cleanup block), and SideEffect (runs on every successful composition). The skydoves/compose-effects library adds RememberedEffect — a non-coroutine analog of LaunchedEffect. Picking the wrong API wastes a coroutine scope, leaks a listener, or silently drops the latest version of a callback. This skill is the decision tree.

When to use this skill

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Using Efficient Effects

What else does skydoves publish alongside Using Efficient Effects?
Using Efficient Effects is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from skydoves/compose-performance-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Auditing Compose Performance, Avoiding Subcomposition Pitfalls and Choosing DerivedStateOf. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Using Efficient Effects does, and is maintained by skydoves in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the skydoves/compose-performance-skills page.
How does Using Efficient Effects compare to other Frontend skills?
Using Efficient Effects ranks #520 by stars among the 567 Frontend skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Angular Developer, Android Clean Architecture and Accessibility. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Using Efficient Effects against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.