Demand for "ref" prop support

[Sec-ant]

I've been trying to update a plotly graph rapidly and frequently to generate an animation in a react app using window.requestAnimationFrame API, according to this example. Right now, in my update function, I use setState to refresh my states (already bound to my <Plotly /> data prop) and thus trigger plotly to redraw. However, setState is an asynchronous function and it seems to consume too much execution time in between the frame interval. To solve this problem, I'm now trying to use DOM refs and Plotly.animate API to update the graph outside of the React logic. So is there any chance that react-plotly.js will support ref prop in the <Plotly /> component?

Thanks and have a nice day!

[JamesRamm]

@Sec-ant Somewhat related to my suggestions here: https://github.com/plotly/react-plotly.js/issues/242

As noted, a by-product of providing an API based on react hooks is that you can access the ref. Perhaps my examples can give you some inspiration - in my own experience, integrating plotly for specific use-cases can be quite simple and react-plotly can be overly large/inflexible.