High-risk tools in Why Did You Render
2 of the 14 tools in Why Did You Render are classified as high risk. This page profiles those tools specifically, with recommended policy actions and the attack patterns that target them.
Every operation listed below is an action PolicyLayer recommends controlling at the transport layer. Open any tool to see the full profile, risk score, and YAML policy snippet.
Tools at high risk
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pause_rendersExecutePauses render data collection in the browser. Connected clients will stop reporting renders until resume_renders is called. Useful when you want to ignore renders from irrelevan...
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wait_for_rendersExecuteWaits for new renders to arrive after a code change. Call this after modifying code to wait for HMR to complete and measure the resulting re-renders. Returns a summary of new re...
Attacks that target this class
High-risk tools in any server share these documented attack patterns. Each links to the full case and the defensive policy.