Is it ok to use document.getElementById() ?

[fair urchin]

I know it is not the best react practice but it would shrink the amount of code I need to write for a specific functionality is I use the native dom api instead of the react refs.
Thanks in advance!

[swift garden]

Just use the refs idk why it would be shorter without them

[fair urchin]

Because the refs need to be instanciated on the top of the file and the getElement can happen conditionally

[swift garden]

If it works it works

[fair urchin]

?

[swift garden]

Do what you have to do

[fair urchin]

An authentication form

I wanna grab the values only on submit

[swift garden]

Just use the FormData web api

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FormData

[barren junco]

@fair urchin An advice that helped me alot is to not be afraid of longer codes / larger functions.

[fair urchin]

I hate this api, Imma stick to refs😁

[fair urchin]

I am not, I just feel like it is a waste of memory to keep those inputs hooked to a state variable

[swift garden]

Also depends what you need for the form

[fair urchin]

I need to track the values only on submit

[swift garden]

Does it need to check if the input is correct at any time or only submit

Ahh alright uncontrolled it is

Seems you got it under control then

[barren junco]

You can add a listener (attribute) that passes the form as an object to your function

something like onSubmit((e) => myfunc(e))

Then extract the values from e

[swift garden]

I believe he’s already doing that

Just for preventDefault Atleast

[fair urchin]

I know most of the posibilities. the reason I am asking is because of some comments I got from advanced react devs who bashed me for using native apis in react

[swift garden]

Fucking autocorrect to Atleast?

There’s nothing wrong with using native APIs

[fair urchin]

Yeah, I know

[swift garden]

Depends which ones though as some don’t work too well if done wrong

[fair urchin]

But the docs and some seniors have told me that it is a really bad practice

[swift garden]

Meh

Depends, some more depends finally some depends.

It’s a very black and white picture your “seniors” are throwing at you lol

Maybe they aren’t as senior as you think

[fair urchin]

I know

[fair urchin]

Completely correct

[fair urchin]

Opinionates asf

[fair urchin]

But I have no other choice than to follow their instructions

[swift garden]

A lot of people are held back by sticking to the easy route, taking the easy way, believing they are always right, instead of going out and experimenting

[fair urchin]

I love actually seeing both sides of the argument but my company situation is opinionated

Not in the best way of course

[swift garden]

🤷 I’m just a very curious student

Ain’t got no job

[fair urchin]

I am a student as well but with a job

I am not the one paying so I can't force my practices onto them

[swift garden]

School is free here 🤘

[fair urchin]

Where ?

[swift garden]

A country in Scandinavia

The one Lego is from

[fair urchin]

Oo finland ?

[swift garden]

😭

👎

Denmark

[fair urchin]

joking dude

I am not american

Don't worry

[swift garden]

Dutch?

Or Canadian, likes to joke about their neighbors?

[fair urchin]

Hmm

I mean Canadians are polite asf

[swift garden]

So you’re not Canadian

French?

UK?

[fair urchin]

Balkan

Bulgarian to be exact

[swift garden]

Ahh

Isn’t that close to Estonia and Latvia

Or rather they are in the balkans

[fair urchin]

I live 20 km from the greek border

and we are pretty far from the baltic nations

[swift garden]

Duck me, Baltic and balkans

👍 we’re on the same page now lol

[fair urchin]

Yeah

It was good chatting with you, need to continue on with work.

See ya!