Avoid re-render component - reactjs

I have 3 components:
Parent
Form
Preview
With every change on Form Component, I pass the values to Parent, from Parent to Preview component. And it works.
The problem is when I change values on Form, the Preview component show like a flicker (because it's re-rendering the preview component). How can avoid this?
Maybe not updating preview component for every small change? How can I do it?
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React app confusion setting state of nested child component

I'm an embedded developer who is new to React and am struggling a bit with the behaviour of child components and nested child components.
I understand that for any component to be re-rendered, the state must change. I am using an example of a menu component that has an item component within. When some global level event happens, I want to change the text displayed by the item components.
Here is a fiddle that shows some code that I would expect to work:
https://codesandbox.io/s/dark-rain-8mfsp?file=/src/App.tsx
On clicking the div, the menu's setText function gets called, which calls into the item component, setting the state. This state is used in the render function of the item component, so I would expect both item and menu to be re-rendered.
Instead I get an error saying that I can't set the state of an object that hasn't yet been mounted. I would have thought it had been mounted..
Perhaps the way I have linked the declared components with those in the render functions by calling this.componentname.render() is the issue - but how else could that be done?
Thanks in advance!
Here is a working version of your sandbox.
https://codesandbox.io/s/lucid-bird-qecj0?file=/src/App.tsx:0-899
I see that you are new to react. I would suggest you use hooks instead of class components.

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Because , when you use subscribe the render function to the Redux store,
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