What is the difference between useRef and just taking value from input?

Question

React

What is the difference between useRef and just taking value from input? And how is it better?

Answer 1

useRef is needed to access the tag directly, because doing something through document.get... is highly discouraged. And in general it is better to have an input state (useState) and update it on changes (onChange)

Answer 2

Start a sandbox, use two methods there and see the difference