toggling-audio-in-react-without-re-rendering-component

index.jsx

import React, { useRef, useEffect } from 'react';
import p5 from 'p5';

function Game() {
    const audioRef = useRef(new Audio('/path/to/your/audio/file.mp3'));
    let audioButton;

    useEffect(() => {
        // Using p5.js to create the audio toggle button
        const sketch = (p) => {
            p.setup = () => {
                p.createCanvas(400, 400);
                audioButton = p.createImg(audioRef.current.paused ? '/path/to/audioOff.png' : '/path/to/audioOn.png', "audio button");
                audioButton.position(20, p.height - 50);
                audioButton.size(30, 30);
                audioButton.mouseClicked(() => {
                    if (audioRef.current.paused) {
                        audioRef.current.play();
                    } else {
                        audioRef.current.pause();
                    }
                    // Update button icon without causing a re-render
                    audioButton.elt.src = audioRef.current.paused ? '/path/to/audioOff.png' : '/path/to/audioOn.png';
                });
            };

            p.draw = () => {
                // Game drawing logic...
            };
        };

        new p5(sketch);
        
        return () => {
            audioRef.current.pause(); // Ensure the audio is paused if component unmounts
        };
    }, []);

    // No state updates, so no risk of resetting score/timer

    return (
        <div>
            {/* The canvas will be rendered by p5.js */}
        </div>
    );
}