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consider adding `useRecoilMemo`

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#985 opened on Apr 23, 2021

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Description

I find myself in a situation often where a component needs to build up some derived state from a series of different atoms/selectors—this may even be looping over an array of atoms/selectors. And to do that I'm forced to create a new selector that represents this components derived state (to have access to get in a context where looping is fine).

Instead, it would be nice if there was a useRecoilMemo which was similar to useMemo except it received ({ get }) as a parameter. So you could do complex aggregations right inline without having to define these one-off atoms/selectors.

Here's a very simplified example:

const Component = ({ users }) => {
  const data = useRecoilMemo(({ get }) => {
    return users.map(user => get(userProfileSelectorFamily(user.id)))
  }, [users])
  
  return <div>{data...}</div>
}

But these aggregations are often much more complex.

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