Forcing widget refresh on frontend & the backbone view reference

[thsbrown]

I'm curious if there is a relatively simple way to force refresh/reload a widget via ajax?

After doing extensive research into the code base it looks, like the resetStyle() method bound to the widget context menu / backbone.view would work for me, unfortunately that would require the backbone view reference.

Is there any easy way to get a backbone.view reference to a widget via javascript? If not is there any other way I might be able to refresh/reload my widget another way?

The reason this is all necessary is that elementor currently does not fire the element_ready action when dragging and dropping on a widget in the same location see here, so some of my code is failing to reinitialize despite something changing when the dragging and dropping on same location occurs.

Code For Reference

    $( window ).on( 'elementor/frontend/init', function() {
            elementorFrontend.hooks.addAction( 'frontend/element_ready/double-subtitled-video.default', (scope,jquery) => {
                //videojs fails initialization when dragging and dropping in same location due to above action not firing
                new VideoPlayer(scope[0].getElementsByTagName("video").item(0));
            } );
    } );

[dbjpanda]

I too wanted similar functionality. I wanted to refresh a widget say post widget on trigger of an action from my custom widget.

[harrywhitedev]

Elementor Documentation for developers is awful.