$refs

$refs is a magic property that can be used to retrieve DOM elements marked with x-ref inside the component. This is useful when you need to manually manipulate DOM elements. It's often used as a more succinct, scoped, alternative to document.querySelector.

<button @click="$refs.text.remove()">Remove Text</button>

<span x-ref="text">Hello 👋</span>

<div class="demo">
    <div x-data>
        <button @click="$refs.text.remove()">Remove Text</button>

        <div class="pt-4" x-ref="text">Hello 👋</div>
    </div>
</div>

Now, when the <button> is pressed, the <span> will be removed.