Preact: Support findDOMNode

[steelbrain]

I have a use case where my components are given HTMLElements and I have to append them to the component. My usage is blocked because of this

See it on React Docs

[developit]

Hi - Component#getDOMNode() and .findDOMNode() are both supported in preact-compat. Preact simply exposes your DOM Node as this.base within any component.

[steelbrain]

Wow, I looked into preact-markup and not in compat, sorry about that :bow:

[developit]

No problem :) I am not against potentially adding a proper API for this (this.base is something I came up with and not supported by React), but I'd like to wait until things shake out a bit with React's API changes to see what they end up standardizing on. For reference, here's the implementation in preact-compat.
Cheers!

[steelbrain]

I don't really need anything else from preact-compat other than this method, are you going to keep compatibility in .base via semver? Is it okay to use it in my project?

[developit]

It will work indefinitely, and yes a major version change would occur if it were changed in any way. I'm using .base in nearly all of my projects, you can definitely consider it a safe part of the API. Preact is very careful about exposing things, anything you have access to is part of the versions, public API.

[steelbrain]

Beautiful, Thank you for your awesome project :+1: