SMRTR ProgrammingApr 7, 2025Daily.dev

How to use the React useRef Hook effectively

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The useRef Hook in React maintains mutable values across re-renders without triggering them, useful for DOM access, timeouts, observers, and storing previous state or props, but shouldn't be used for re-render triggers or immutable data storage.

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