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title: "merge-refs"
description: "A helper for assigning several React refs through one callback."
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<PurposeNote title="Good for">Combining internal and forwarded refs in reusable components.</PurposeNote>

## What it does

A helper for assigning several React refs through one callback.

## When it fits

Combining internal and forwarded refs in reusable components.

## Other options in this category

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- [beautiful-react-hooks](/utilities/beautiful-react-hooks) — Avoiding repeated browser-event and component-state plumbing.
- [deep-equal-json](/utilities/deep-equal-json) — Checking whether nested serialized data has changed.
- [Dinero.js](/utilities/dinero-js) — Handling currencies and arithmetic without treating money as an unstructured number.
- [es-toolkit](/utilities/es-toolkit) — Handling everyday collection and data transformations with individual helpers.
- [FilterQL](/utilities/filterql) — Expressing reusable filtering conditions over collections.

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## Source

[Project source for merge-refs ↗](https://github.com/wojtekmaj/merge-refs)

Editorial overview reviewed on October 24, 2026. Follow the source for current setup, compatibility, and licensing.

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