Is there a standardised way of (or example of) creating forwardrefs in reagent? or is it a case of passing an atom through components?

yea, just passing atoms

the forwardRef stuff is just cruft from classes

originally, the React devs didn’t think when users used props spread like:

render() {
    return <div {...this.props} />;
  }

however, with functional components and either hooks or ratoms, you usually have no need for refs outside of accessing the DOM so it’s honestly better to have them on props

it’s part of React’s plan to eventually remove forwardRef and have refs on props again

thanks!