Pixi, create app again after destroy?

[tips4design]

I have to destroy a PIXI app and create it later on the same page, but it doesn't seem to work. No error is thrown but it simply doesn't show anything after the restart.

Here is the edited basic example (https://pixijs.github.io/examples/#/basics/basic.js ):

var app;

function create() {
  app = new PIXI.Application(800, 600, {backgroundColor : 0x1099bb});
document.body.appendChild(app.view);

// create a new Sprite from an image path
var bunny = PIXI.Sprite.fromImage('required/assets/basics/bunny.png')

// center the sprite's anchor point
bunny.anchor.set(0.5);

// move the sprite to the center of the screen
bunny.x = app.renderer.width / 2;
bunny.y = app.renderer.height / 2;

app.stage.addChild(bunny);

// Listen for animate update
app.ticker.add(function(delta) {
    // just for fun, let's rotate mr rabbit a little
    // delta is 1 if running at 100% performance
    // creates frame-independent tranformation
    bunny.rotation += 0.1 * delta;
});
  console.log(PIXI);
  
}

create();
setTimeout(() => {
  app.destroy();
  setTimeout(create, 200);
}, 1000);

 

[tips4design]

Nevermind, the issue is that the old canvas is still there, so the new canvas is added below it.