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Call a method of component from outside react


const MyComponent = ({myRef}) => {
  const handleClick = () => alert('hello world')
  myRef.current.handleClick = handleClick
  return (<button onClick={handleClick}>Original Button</button>)
}

MyComponent.defaultProps = {
  myRef: {current: {}}
}

const MyParentComponent = () => {
  const myRef = React.useRef({})
  return (
    <>
      <MyComponent 
        myRef={myRef}
      />
      <button onClick={myRef.current.handleClick}>
        Additional Button
      </button>
    </>
  )
}

Source: stackoverflow.com

Calling a Method from Outside of the Component

<!-- Parent.vue -->
<template>
  <ChildComponent ref="child" />
</template>

// Somewhere in Parent.vue
this.$refs.child.method();

Source: dev.to

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