Does treetabular support remote child nodes?

Question

I want to prepare a tree structure using reactabular / treetabular. For every parent node that is to be displayed, I want to show a collapsed parent. But there won't be any child nodes just yet. When the user expands the parent, the child nodes will be retrieved via API call and displayed. How do I do this with treetabular?

Answer 1

There's no built-in support.

That said, you can likely develop this functionality on top of what exists already. To do this, you'll need to track fetch state and capture parent interaction (likely onClick). You may also need some mock children so you get hide/show control to intercept.

It may be worth it to look into integrating some of this functionality into treetabular. But write a proof of concept before that.