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Replies for: Hi, great article. One problem. You wrote 'whenever we want to navigate to a modal, we set the background state to tell react-router that we do n...

I don't think you can avoid re rendering parent but you can memoize the components on parent as you attempted. It should work fine. You can:

const ContactsMemo = useMemo(() => <Contacts />, []);

<Parent>
  {ContactsMemo}
<Parent>