feat(ConnectedForm): Allowing customValidations to be passed to form groups and connected inputs for dynamic validations

[tchryssos]

Overview

This PR adds the ability to pass custom validation objects to specific inputs in addition to the validations already included on the top level of the form. This is important because form-level validations are not easy to change dynamically because of both memoization and the need for accessing values "after" the form is instantiated.

There are a few threads kind of about this on the rhf github, but the general conclusions seem to be "you need to be able to access the getValues function when you create your validation rules" and "inlining on the register itself is the place to do wonky stuff".

Since our connected inputs don't actually do the registering themselves and instead hand that responsibility off to the useField hook, I have modified the useField hook to accept customValidations which can be passed to the FormGroup or the input itself. In either case, the custom rules will trickle into useField and successfully MERGE those rules with the ones coming from the form, with customValidations taking priority (since one might want to override a form level rule but the opposite seems unlikely to me).

PR Checklist

• Related to JIRA ticket: https://skillsoftdev.atlassian.net/browse/WPLAT-3458. This ticket is actually about the VM configurator UX, but this is required to fix that
• I have run this code to verify it works
• This PR includes unit tests for the code change
• This PR includes testing instructions tests for the code change
• The alpha package of this PR is passing end-to-end tests in all relevant Codecademy repositories

Testing Instructions

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1. See that the tests pass

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