[Bug]: Update Documentation: Ref Example No Longer Applicable in React 19+
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Description
Summary
The section in the documentation about "Accessing another component’s DOM nodes" provides an example where a ref cannot be directly applied to a custom component (such as ) to access its DOM node. However, this behavior has changed in React 19, and refs can now be directly assigned to custom components. This section should be updated or removed as it no longer accurately reflects the current behavior in React.
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https://react.dev/learn/manipulating-the-dom-with-refs#accessing-another-components-dom-nodes
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Research direction
Open the linked React documentation page and locate the “Accessing another component’s DOM nodes” section. Review the example against React 19 ref behavior, then update or remove the outdated explanation so the page accurately describes current behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, react
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100