title: Getting a reference to third party components in React
body: <p>If you’re using a 3rd party component and you want to call a method of that component, how do you get a reference to it so that you can call it?
  React used to have a prop called  where in the parent component you can call this.refs.myrefname.somemethod(), but looks like react removed the ref prop. </p>
  
  <p>How can the same thing be achieved now?</p>