Access component ref from outside its scope

I would like to have a custom hook that would provide me with a ScrollView component and a function to imperatively control the scrolling of that given component.

I'm using a library called react-native-keyboard-aware-scroll-view, which allows me to catch the reference of the component trough a prop called innerRef. Through that reference I have access to a series of methods that I can use to manipulate the scrolling.

The only way that I found for that "control function" to have access to the reference while being outside the scope of the ScrollView component was to create that ref globally using React.createRef like below:

const ref = createRef();const ScrollView = ({ children, ...props }) => {  return (<KeyboardAwareScrollView      {...props}      innerRef={(inner) => {        ref.current = inner; //adding ref to scrollview      }}>      {children}</KeyboardAwareScrollView>  );};const useScrollTo = () => {  const scrollTo = (position: number) => {    if (ref.current && position) {     /* controlling scroll using ref */      ref.current.scrollTo({        x: 0,        y: position,        animate: true      });    }  };  return { ScrollView, scrollTo };};export default useScrollTo;

This feels anti-pattern to me, so I'd like to know if there's a proper way for me to do this without the need of having a ref in the global scope like this. Is this even possible?