I am working on an existing React Tab container, which handles tab clicking on its own, automatically setting its own “active tab index” state.

I want to allow the parent container to programmatically tell the tab container to “go to” a particular tab index.

Is it better to expose an imperative gotoTab() API via useImperativeHandle, or should I move the activeTab state to a prop and rely on the parent setting the right index – presumably the parent would also need some kind of onTabWillChange callback from the tab container so that it can feed the new index back as a prop?