Exposing NodeRef from ComponentRef<T>

[myypo]

Hi!

Is there any particular reason why the ComponentRef<T> or its T ref do not expose the associated NodeRef type?
It seems pretty useful to be able to access its full API to e.g. avoid having to track the value with a signal.

Are there any caveats? I am pretty new both to Leptos and web UIs so I might be missing something here.

[luoxiaozero]

NodeRef is associated with DOM and requires the implementation of ElementType. ComponentRef is only used to export the internal methods of the component and does not need to implement ElementType.

[myypo]

Ok, thank you, I get this part now.

I wanted to ask next why pub(super) textarea_ref: NodeRef<html::Textarea> and others are private but as I wrote I figured out that there is a possibility of the WASM state getting out of sync when the DOM is modified by the user directly. Silly of me to forget.

[luoxiaozero]

I wanted to ask next why pub(super) textarea_ref: NodeRefhtml::Textarea and others are private

The textarea_ref partial disclosure is only for internal use. I don't want to make it public for users to operate.

but as I wrote I figured out that there is a possibility of the WASM state getting out of sync when the DOM is modified by the user directly

I do not recommend users to directly manipulate the DOM of the Thaw component.