How to scroll to an element?

I have a chat widget that pulls up an array of messages every time I scroll up. The problem I am facing now is the slider stays fixed at the top when messages load. I want it to focus on the last index element from the previous array. I figured out that I can make dynamic refs by passing index, but I would also need to know what kind of scroll function to use to achieve that

 handleScrollToElement(event) {
    const tesNode = ReactDOM.findDOMNode(this.refs.test)
    if (some_logic){
      //scroll to testNode      
    }
  }

  render() {

    return (
      <div>
        <div ref="test"></div>
      </div>)
  }

<div id="componentToScrollTo"><div>

<a href='#componentToScrollTo'>click me to scroll to this</a>