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Missing information in documentation (passing prop to ref)

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Description

On this page https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/blob/master/content/docs/refs-and-the-dom.md in section "When to Use Refs " there is mentioned that you can "pass an isOpen prop to it". There is no example how to do that. How to pass prop through a ref.

Maybe it's something as simple as ref.current.propName = value. I don't know.
There is just one question for this on stack overflow, with no answer.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55806387/react-pass-prop-to-ref

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Tech stack
javascript, react
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
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2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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