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robertoandred01/17/20251 replyview on HN

You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of React, Next, etc. They don't stop you from using native CSS or HTML functionality.


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recursive01/17/2025

Not technically, but they sure don't have to make it easy. Getting an element reference is clearly not the optimized-for use case. The docs even warn against it.

> Refs are an escape hatch. Manually manipulating another component’s DOM nodes can make your code fragile.

https://react.dev/learn/manipulating-the-dom-with-refs

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