The information here is technically correct, but should only be used as a last resort, for example when you're integrating with a third party library that is hard to integrate with React and requires you to call a function on it directly.
In 99.9% of the cases, you want to communicate with the ChildComponent by passing it new props that reflect the update.
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The information here is technically correct, but should only be used as a last resort, for example when you're integrating with a third party library that is hard to integrate with React and requires you to call a function on it directly.
In 99.9% of the cases, you want to communicate with the ChildComponent by passing it new props that reflect the update.