Navigation: Create new Menu produces a warning in the console stating misuse of refs

[yogeshbhutkar]

Description

Creating a new menu from the Block Panel of the Navigation block currently triggers a warning: Function components cannot be given refs in the developer console. Ideally, this action should not produce any warnings.

I tried searching for existing issues but was not able to find any. If it is felt that this issue is duplicated, please feel free to close it.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions

1. Navigate to site-editor page.
2. Add a Navigation block.
3. Go to its Block Panel.
4. Click on the three dots.
5. Click on Create new Menu.

Screenshots, screen recording, code snippet

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Environment info

• WordPress Version: 6.8-alpha-59361
• Gutenberg Version: Trunk (f91339e)
• OS: macOS Sequoia

Please confirm that you have searched existing issues in the repo.

• Yes

Please confirm that you have tested with all plugins deactivated except Gutenberg.

• Yes

Please confirm which theme type you used for testing.

• Block
• Classic
• Hybrid (e.g. classic with theme.json)
• Not sure

[Mayank-Tripathi32]

@yogeshbhutkar Thanks for reporting this issue. I was able to replicate it on the trunk branch within the site editor. However, I couldn't reproduce the same warning in the post editor, as no warning was logged in the console there.

I will work on fixing the issue.