The useImperativeHandle hook can be useful in advanced scenarios where you need to provide a custom instance to the parent of a functional component that is wrapped in a forwardRef.
For example, suppose you have a TextInput component that is implemented as a functional component and wrapped in a forwardRef so that it can be used like this:
const TextInput = React.forwardRef((props, ref) => {
// The TextInput component implementation goes here
});
// Use the TextInput component with a ref