react-native-gifted-chat: When props are updated the UI doesn't reflect the update

If you have this.props.messages and messages gets updated after an action is triggered the ui doesn’t reflect the changes but render is called again on the component with the new set of props.

Is their something i’m missing for receiving new props or is this a 🐛

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  • State: closed
  • Created 9 years ago
  • Comments: 18 (4 by maintainers)

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so update messages using setState() won’t work as well? How can I delete a message? I tried setState() to modify messages array but it didn’t work.

@b8ne Your selector should always return a new array when something changes.