Start drawing an edge after clicking an option in a context menu on a node in a network

[m0squito]

I've been trying to get some help with a particular functionality of vis.js + Angular 9 via this quesiton on Stack Overflow, but to no avail - not a single answer and very little interest. I'm not sure if this amounts to a feature request and I hate to disrespect the rules of posting issues, but I have searched repositories, documentation, source code, etc. and I'm still stuck. If anyone here could point me to a place where I can find some hints, I would greatly appreciate it.

Here's the problem, reposted from Stack:
I am using the network widget of vis.js via ngx-vis in an Angular 9 application. My goal is to trigger drawing an edge from a specific node by selecting an option from a context menu. Thus, one would right-click on Node A, select "Add edge", after which the edge has one end already connected to Node A and all the user needs to do is to click the target node. I am using ngx-contextmenu to get the node-specific context menu. This action triggers a method with the following code:
this.visNetworkService.addEdgeMode(this.visNetwork);
which allows the user to add one edge, but they have to select both the start and end node, which defeats the purpose of having this action triggered from a context menu on a specific node. Is there a way to programmatically "click" on the node (I can get its position) and get the desired behavior?

[Instinct408]

@m0squito Im curious, how did you get the context menu to appear when you right click a node?

[nikhil-varma]

Currently tackling the same use-case in React. Any help here would be appreciated. Able to show a context menu but just unable to set the controlEdge object for the edge to start automatically. Any workarounds for this? Or any other approaches?

[nikhil-varma]

@Thomaash Any help here is appreciated: #1922