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Improve useRef documentation to avoid re-creating ref contents and null checks #7055

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12 changes: 12 additions & 0 deletions src/content/reference/react/useRef.md
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Expand Up @@ -534,6 +534,18 @@ function Video() {

Here, the `playerRef` itself is nullable. However, you should be able to convince your type checker that there is no case in which `getPlayer()` returns `null`. Then use `getPlayer()` in your event handlers.

A More Robust Solution Using useState:
If you want a more robust solution that avoids all kinds of acrobatics like lying to a type checker or performing checks inside the render body, you can leverage useState:

```js
function Video() {
const [playerRef] = useState(() => ({ current: new VideoPlayer() }));

// playerRef is now a stable object containing the video player instance
}
```


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