There is no way to update the items as it only takes in the initialItems

[msimonian77]

Overview

We dynamically change the items but here the items are initial only? Was that intentional?

Package versions

react-vis-timeline: 2.0.3
vis version: 4.21.0

Steps to reproduce

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1. Creating the timeline sending in initialItems and initialGroups
2. Items were updated but the timeline stays the same

Code Snippet

           <Timeline
                options={timelineOptions}
                ref={timelineRef}
                initialItems={timelineItems}
                initialGroups={updatedGroups}
                rangechangeHandler={rangeChangeHandler}
            />

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• e.g. issue 123

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[msimonian77]

what i did was instead of adding the items in initialItems I added them in a useEffect:
useEffect(
() => {
if (timelineRef.current.timeline) {
timelineRef.current.timeline.setItems(timelineItems);
}
},
[timelineItems]
);

[razbensimon]

what i did was instead of adding the items in initialItems I added them in a useEffect:
useEffect(
() => {
if (timelineRef.current.timeline) {
timelineRef.current.timeline.setItems(timelineItems);
}
},
[timelineItems]
);

Yes, your mehod is correct for changing the items.
initialItems is exists for more like static situations, when you have all data before and just want to display it once.
I know it can be confusing - two ways for passing data. So I works on next version, which uses only react props, but also good at performance by using vis's native api.