If you’re using a 3rd party component and you want to call a method of that component, how do you get a reference to it so that you can call it? React used to have a prop called where in the parent component you can call this.refs.myrefname.somemethod(), but looks like react removed the ref prop.
How can the same thing be achieved now?
well.. last i checked, it still works..
Edit: I have already shown the implementation here. anyways posted the code as well. So refs are still in work.
https://codesandbox.io/s/3rd-party-component-i9cbx
export default function App() {
const textFieldRef = createRef();
useEffect(() => {
textFieldRef.current.value = "Value";
textFieldRef.current.focus();
}, [textFieldRef]);
return <TextField inputRef={textFieldRef} />;
}