useRef() hook is used to create references (or refs in short) in functional components of React.
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Good highlight article.
Everywhere people use
useRefwith DOM examples so much that i started thinking thatsuseRefshould be used when DOM is in the questions. Which is not entirely true as it can be used for other purposes. It took me a while to understand the other side as nobody talks about it.React - useRef used in conjunction with useEffect
Gyandeep Singh ・ Jul 2 ・ 2 min read
Yes and thanks.
My intention was to just introduce any beginner with the concept and then brief some of the use cases. After that they can go and do their research well because they got some idea around it. I couldn't find an extremely basic article so wrote one.
And I checked your article, it's well put🙌
Nice! Coincidentally, I needed refs yesterday for the first time, on a WordPress Gutenberg plugin using react-leaflet. Leaflet doesn't allow accessing an existing map element by id, so I had to pass the object in a ref, which worked fine.
Had my useRef trial-by-fire back in June for the same reasons =D. It's handy for holding & interacting/controlling class instances that would otherwise persist across & perform their own DOM manipulations outside of the React component lifecycle.
Wow! Great man and I've used leaflet.js too when I built my first ever web app using JavaScript. It was a location bookmark app.
Hope my article helped you clear things up🙌
Thanks for your inputs but I wanted to keep this article extremely simple and give anyone who is new to ref to get some idea and then do their research. Official docs are there for that and I linked them too.
Refs can also be used to store variables for use in useEffects when you don’t want that variable to be in the dependency array.
Wow! Thanks for filling me in. I too have just a decent idea about it but considering the time I wasted on understanding refs, I thought a simple article might save someone else's time.
Thanks for this simple explanation 😆
Glad it helped🙌
Glad you found it helpful Daniel😄