React ref equivalent in hyperapp v2?

[aminroosta]

In v1 there where undocumented lifecycle methods (oncreate, onupdate, and onremove) that could be used to get a reference to the dom node created.

That has been removed in v2.

How do I get a reference to a DOM node?

[jorgebucaran]

The answer really depends on what you want to use that DOM node for.

The easy way is with document.getElementById() inside a custom effect or outside your application's pure layer.

What are you trying to do?

[aminroosta]

There is a library called split.js , I'm writing a wrapper for.

var split = Split(<HTMLElement|selector[]> elements, <options> options?)

Basically i need to pass $parent.children the first time my component is created and clean it up once it's removed.

[aminroosta]

closing, since it's been discuss before in #717

[zaceno]

@aminroosta In case you're unclear on the details, have a look at # 10 of my code-along video series where I implement a custom effect for finding dom elements to call the .focus() method on them.