If I understand spicyj correctly, I think he&#x27;s saying in v0.14 a ref of React.DOM will now be the raw DOM node; <i>but</i> it will also contain a getDOMNode method (which just returns itself) in order to continue working for people expecting the old behavior.<p>Refs to custom components will work exactly how they did in 0.13. And getDOMNode is deprecated in general (use React.findDOMNode instead).