Center Vis.js timeline on current date on open

Question

I have a VisJS timeline ranging from January 2017-2018. The timeline opens centered on a three month range mid-year, but I would like it to open every time centered at the current time.

min: new Date(2017, 1, 5),           // lower limit of visible range
max: new Date(2018, 1, 11),          // upper limit of visible range
zoomMin: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24,        // one day in milliseconds
zoomMax: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24*31*3,   // three months in milliseconds

Answer 1

You may try with something like this (timeline.setWindow()):

const todayStart = new Date();
todayStart.setHours(8, 0, 0, 0);
const todayEnd = new Date();
todayEnd.setHours(18, 0, 0, 0);

console.log(todayStart, ':', todayEnd);
setTimeout(_ => {
  this.timeline.setWindow(todayStart, todayEnd, { animation: true });
});

or better with the moveTo

  this.timeline.moveTo(new Date());//or
  this.timeline.moveTo(new Date(), { animation: true });//or
  this.timeline.moveTo(new Date(), { animation: true }, (props) => {
    console.log("movedTo", props);
  });