I'm trying to periodically reload an iframe but i'm using React so i can't manipulate the DOM directly. It seems like my best option is to use forceUpdate() because the url isn't changing so i can't use a state change to update it (See previous post here What's the best way to periodically reload an iframe with React?).
However when i try doing a forceUpdate() it doesn't re-render my component. Any ideas as to why?
var Graph = React.createClass({
componentDidMount: function() {
setInterval(function(){
this.forceUpdate();
}.bind(this), 5000);
},
render() {
return (
<iframe src=http://play.grafana.org/dashboard/db/elasticsearch-metrics width=1900px height=700px/>
)
}
});
See the codepen here: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/ggPGPQ
**I know grafana can be set to auto update, i'm just using this as an example iframe.