Using Renderer2 removeChild with parent set as null

I'm using Renderer2 to render some custom elements in an Angular application. As each element is created, it is stored as a constant:

const myNewElement = this.renderer2.createElement('div');


When the time comes to remove this element, I am using removeChild. This has a parameter for the parent of the node being removed:

removeChild(parent: any, oldChild: any, isHostElement?: boolean | undefined)


However if I set parent to null, it seems to remove oldChild from the DOM successfully and without throwing an error:

this.renderer2.removeChild(null, myNewElement); // Works!


Could this approach cause any potential issues? Should a parent element be specified, even if removeChild works without it?

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