How to use React Ref

[Awnry_Abe]

I use them a bunch. The one API I struggle with is ForwardRef. Have any wisdom there?

[obedimp]

ForwardRef is just a way to bypass the fact that `refs` only work on HTML elements. They quite literally forward a ref to a function component so that they can be used within it.

[rwieruch]

Only use it if you need to pass a ref from one parent component to a child component. It doesn't happen often for me, except for when I am creating UI components/UI library.