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useImperativeHandle introduction

useImperativeHandle introduction

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useImperativeHandle introduction

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Hello and welcome back. In the lesson number 9, we are going to read, discuss and learn about the use imperative hook. So let's start understanding why we are going to need the use imperative hook. Use imperative hook is used with a forward ref keyword. We are going to discuss about the forward ref soon in the upcoming slides. This hook allows us to customize the instance value exposed to a parent component via the ref keywords. So to summarize, in one line, we can say that if we are having a parent and child component scenario and a parent component wants to execute some of the child component's functions or features, then if we want it to be limited then we can limit those values for the parent to call and we can do that by using the use imperative hook. This is needed in conjunction with the use ref hook because usually we are going to call some of the child component's JSX element behavior or some of the functions that we just want to expose to parent and not all of it. It allows…

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