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Rename internal forwardedRef usage #1553

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This addresses issue #1552, where if a parent passes in a forwardedRef prop to a connected component (with default options), the connected child will not receive this prop. This change has the same issue with the prop reactReduxForwardedRef, but forwardedRef is a prop name commonly used and provided in React's documentation, so reactReduxForwardedRef is much less likely to be used elsewhere.

I'm happy to choose a name other than reactReduxForwardedRef if there are any suggestions, I went with something that would hopefully be clear that it is for internal use only and would be unlikely to be used by any other codebase.

A bit of context for why I'm proposing this change, if it helps. I migrated a large codebase from react-redux v5 to v7 recently. This codebase had a lot of instances of refs being passed down as a forwardedRef prop (per the suggestion in React's documentation). Many of our components are connected components in order to access feature flags. The upgrade broke all cases where a forwardedRef prop was passed through a connected component. I fixed this in the codebase by renaming all of these props refToForward and making a lint rule to forbid the use of forwardedRef. This was a little silly, but was a high confidence way to resolve the issue. I believe connect swallowing forwardedRef props is a very minor pain point and can cause confusion for developers, and since the fix isn't too involved I'm of the opinion it's worth doing.

It's your all's library though, and I understand if you don't want to merge this. Thanks for all the you do!

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timdorr commented Mar 24, 2020

Thanks!

@timdorr timdorr merged commit 172b233 into reduxjs:master Mar 24, 2020
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Chen-jj added a commit to NervJS/taro that referenced this pull request Jul 27, 2020
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* Rename internal forwardedRef usage to reactReduxForwardedRef to limit namespace collision of a parent component passing in a prop called forwardedRef

* Formatting changes

Co-authored-by: Drew Schuster <dschuster@slack-corp.com>
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