Important

This project is still in its alpha phase.

When using it be aware that things may not yet work as expected and can break at any point. Releases happen often, so when you experience problems, make sure you are using the latest version (check with npm outdated in your project) before opening an issue.

We are still in a phase where we can easily make bigger changes, so we ask you to please provide feedback on everything you notice - including, but not limited to

• developer experience (installation, typings, sourcemaps, framework integration, ...)
• hard to understand concepts and APIs
• wrong, missing, outdated or inaccurate documentation
• use-cases not covered by the API
• missing features
• and of course any bugs you encounter

Also, feel free to use GitHub discussions to ask questions or start a new discussion.

React Components for the Google Maps JavaScript API

This is a TypeScript / JavaScript library to integrate the Maps JavaScript API into your React application. It comes with a collection of React components to create maps, markers and infowindows, and a set of hooks to use some of the Maps JavaScript API Services and Libraries.

Installation

This library is available on npm as @vis.gl/react-google-maps.

npm install @vis.gl/react-google-maps

or

yarn add @vis.gl/react-google-maps

(PowerShell users: since @ has a special meaning in PowerShell, the package name has to be quoted)

Usage

Import the APIProvider and wrap it around all components that should have access to the Google Maps API. Any component within the context of the APIProvider can use the hooks and components provided by this library.

To render a simple map, add a Map component inside the APIProvider. Within the Map component, you can then add further components like Marker, AdvancedMarker, or InfoWindow to render content on the map.

For more advanced use-cases you can even add your own components to the map that make use of google.maps.OverlayView or google.maps.WebGlOverlayView.

import {APIProvider, Map, Marker} from '@vis.gl/react-google-maps';

function App() {
  const position = {lat: 53.54992, lng: 10.00678};

  return (
    <APIProvider apiKey={'YOUR API KEY HERE'}>
      <Map defaultCenter={position} defaultZoom={10}>
        <Marker position={position} />
      </Map>
    </APIProvider>
  );
}

export default App;

Please see our documentation or examples for more in-depth information about this library.

Using other libraries of the Maps JavaScript API

Besides rendering maps, the Maps JavaScript API has a lot of additional libraries for things like geocoding, routing, the Places API, Street View, and a lot more.

These libraries are not loaded by default, which is why this module provides the useMapsLibrary() hook to handle dynamic loading of additional libraries.

For example, if you just want to use the google.maps.geocoding.Geocoder class in a component and you don't even need a map, it can be implemented like this:

import {useMap, useMapsLibrary} from '@vis.gl/react-google-maps';

const MyComponent = () => {
  // useMapsLibrary loads the geocoding library, it might initially return `null`
  // if the library hasn't been loaded. Once loaded, it will return the library
  // object as it would be returned by `await google.maps.importLibrary()`
  const geocodingLib = useMapsLibrary('geocoding');
  const geocoder = useMemo(
    () => geocodingLib && new geocodingLib.Geocoder(),
    [geocodingLib],
  );

  useEffect(() => {
    if (!geocoder) return;

    // now you can use `geocoder.geocode(...)` here
  }, [geocoder]);

  return <></>;
};

const App = () => {
  return (
    <APIProvider apiKey={...}>
      <MyComponent />
    </APIProvider>
  );
}

Examples

Explore our examples directory on GitHub or the examples on our website for full implementation examples.