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> However, if you only reference inputRef inside useEffect then it'll always reference the DOM node so you don't need to worry about it being undefined.

This isn't correct; it's well documented [1], but people seem to often think this is true; if you reference it in multiple places or not is irrelevant.

Passing a ref in to the dependencies of `useEffect` doesn't work either.

Mostly I like hooks, but this one in particular seems to trip people up a lot; I'd go as far as to say that using callback refs should be the only supported way of using them; the normal one is pretty much broken by default for any component that isn't entirely trivial.

[1] - I think https://medium.com/@teh_builder/ref-objects-inside-useeffect... covers this pretty carefully.