useRef
Learn how to persist the value of a reference between components' re-renderings and update a reference without triggering a re-render.
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What is useRef()
?
The useRef()
Hook is used to create references by using a dedicated Hook. We’ll call it in the following way:
const ref = useRef(initialValue);
Code Example
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