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Warning: Function components cannot be given refs

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
react, typescript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Reproduce the warning on the latest alpha and inspect the Trigger component's render path and ref handling. Use React.forwardRef guidance to determine the intended fix, then add a regression test showing that the warning is no longer emitted.

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Description

Getting this error on the latest alpha (4.0.0-alpha.5):

Warning: Function components cannot be given refs. Attempts to access this ref will fail. Did you mean to use React.forwardRef()?

    Check the render method of `Trigger`.

Looks like an issue from converting from class components to functional components?

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TypeScript
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