--- title: Why you shouldn’t always use “useState” | daily.dev description: UseRef has the same power of persistence that useState has. It sustains the value through the component’s life-cycle, but the cool part is that it is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-shouldn-t-always-use-usestate--daci3z6mj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why you shouldn’t always use “useState” | daily.dev og:description: UseRef has the same power of persistence that useState has. It sustains the value through the component’s life-cycle, but the cool part is that it is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-shouldn-t-always-use-usestate--daci3z6mj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DaCi3z6mj.png og:image:alt: Why you shouldn’t always use “useState” og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why you shouldn’t always use “useState” **[JavaScript in Plain English](https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish)** · 3 min read · 110 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary UseRef has the same power of persistence that useState has. It sustains the value through the component’s life-cycle, but the cool part is that it is synchronous. When I need to do something immediately and I need it for the flow of my code, then I aim for useRef. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@brunogonzales** · 2 upvotes > or use vue **@blankfella** · 1 upvotes > TLDR; guy gets butthurt, goes and writes article about useState vs useRef vs using a variable. Interesting to see the difference between the first two. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-shouldn-t-always-use-usestate--daci3z6mj) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Why you shouldn’t always use “useState”","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-shouldn-t-always-use-usestate--daci3z6mj","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-shouldn-t-always-use-usestate--daci3z6mj"},"datePublished":"2022-03-17T16:24:50.011Z","dateModified":"2022-03-17T16:24:50.011Z","description":"UseRef has the same power of persistence that useState has. 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