How to Force Component Re-Render?
I ended up firing an event on each object removed that caused them to trigger their own updates. I did this with a config object, but here's a more specific draft of my code. These are shadow dom components so this.parent().closest('pathway') is a selector for <pathway></pathway> In general, re-rendering is not the ed...
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When I try the following in place of pathwaysParent.render(), it obviously creates an infinite loop: I can access the el at pathwaysParent.view.el, but I'm still looking for a good way to force the DOM component to re-render in a non-hacky way.
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I ended up firing an event on each object removed that caused them to trigger their own updates. I did this with a config object, but here's a more specific draft of my code. These are shadow dom components so this.parent().closest('pathway') is a selector for <pathway></pathway> In general, re-ren...
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