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Absolutely! Keep in mind, using refs isn't simply some philosophical rationale of "correctness", they prevent renders. This means that if you're, say, using a timer to keep track of a setTimeout to clear later (like in one of these examples), you don't want to trigger a re-render.
Not only can a re-render during that change cause performance issues, but also introduce behavioral issues as well.
While this article is long to create a more cohesive story, if you wanted a TL;DR it'd be something along the lines of:
"useRef for data causes no-rerenders. Use it wisely"
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Absolutely! Keep in mind, using refs isn't simply some philosophical rationale of "correctness", they prevent renders. This means that if you're, say, using a timer to keep track of a
setTimeoutto clear later (like in one of these examples), you don't want to trigger a re-render.Not only can a re-render during that change cause performance issues, but also introduce behavioral issues as well.
While this article is long to create a more cohesive story, if you wanted a TL;DR it'd be something along the lines of:
"useRef for data causes no-rerenders. Use it wisely"