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Exemples would be welcome here as I've a strong belief that hooks made react components cleaner / shorter

• flowerlad 6y ago
  For one thing you may not use the ref attribute on function components because they don’t have instances. That means the component can't have a .focus() method for example. For simple components hooks may be fine. For more complex ones I prefer classes.
  • Octoth0rpe 6y ago
    I believe the useRef hook is used for this problem: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#useref https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#useref The example even uses .focus()
  • cnity 6y ago
    That's just not true: https://reactjs.org/docs/forwarding-refs.html https://reactjs.org/docs/forwarding-refs.html
  • avery42 6y ago
    Maybe I misunderstood, but isn't this what `React.forwardRef` is for?
    • evan_ 6y ago
      along with useImperativeHandle for writing your own imperative functions like focus() or whatever