@react-google-maps/api

What is @react-google-maps/api?

@react-google-maps/api is a library that provides a set of React components for integrating Google Maps into your React applications. It offers a simple and efficient way to use Google Maps features such as markers, info windows, and various map controls.

What are @react-google-maps/api's main functionalities?

Basic Map

This code demonstrates how to render a basic Google Map using the @react-google-maps/api package. The map is centered at a specific latitude and longitude and has a defined container style.

import { GoogleMap, LoadScript } from '@react-google-maps/api';

const containerStyle = {
  width: '400px',
  height: '400px'
};

const center = {
  lat: -3.745,
  lng: -38.523
};

function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <LoadScript googleMapsApiKey="YOUR_API_KEY">
      <GoogleMap
        mapContainerStyle={containerStyle}
        center={center}
        zoom={10}
      >
        { /* Child components, such as markers, info windows, etc. */ }
        <></>
      </GoogleMap>
    </LoadScript>
  )
}

export default MyComponent;

Markers

This code demonstrates how to add a marker to the Google Map. The marker is positioned at the center of the map.

import { GoogleMap, LoadScript, Marker } from '@react-google-maps/api';

const containerStyle = {
  width: '400px',
  height: '400px'
};

const center = {
  lat: -3.745,
  lng: -38.523
};

function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <LoadScript googleMapsApiKey="YOUR_API_KEY">
      <GoogleMap
        mapContainerStyle={containerStyle}
        center={center}
        zoom={10}
      >
        <Marker position={center} />
      </GoogleMap>
    </LoadScript>
  )
}

export default MyComponent;

Info Windows

This code demonstrates how to add an Info Window to a marker on the Google Map. The Info Window appears when the marker is clicked and can be closed by clicking the close button.

import { GoogleMap, LoadScript, Marker, InfoWindow } from '@react-google-maps/api';
import { useState } from 'react';

const containerStyle = {
  width: '400px',
  height: '400px'
};

const center = {
  lat: -3.745,
  lng: -38.523
};

function MyComponent() {
  const [selected, setSelected] = useState(null);

  return (
    <LoadScript googleMapsApiKey="YOUR_API_KEY">
      <GoogleMap
        mapContainerStyle={containerStyle}
        center={center}
        zoom={10}
      >
        <Marker
          position={center}
          onClick={() => setSelected(center)}
        />
        {selected && (
          <InfoWindow
            position={center}
            onCloseClick={() => setSelected(null)}
          >
            <div>
              <h2>Info Window</h2>
              <p>Details about this location.</p>
            </div>
          </InfoWindow>
        )}
      </GoogleMap>
    </LoadScript>
  )
}

export default MyComponent;

Other packages similar to @react-google-maps/api

google-maps-react

google-maps-react is another popular library for integrating Google Maps into React applications. It provides a set of React components similar to @react-google-maps/api but is considered less performant and less actively maintained.

react-google-maps

react-google-maps is an older library for Google Maps integration in React. It offers similar functionalities but is no longer actively maintained, and users are encouraged to migrate to @react-google-maps/api for better performance and support.

react-map-gl

react-map-gl is a library for integrating Mapbox maps into React applications. While it does not use Google Maps, it offers similar functionalities for map rendering, markers, and controls, making it a good alternative for those who prefer Mapbox.

README

@react-google-maps/api

@react-google-maps/api

You can donate or became a sponsor of the project here: https://opencollective.com/react-google-maps-api#category-CONTRIBUTE

This library requires React v16.6 or later. To use the latest features (including hooks) requires React v16.8+. If you need support for earlier versions of React, you should check out react-google-maps Versions starting 12.20.0 should support React@19.

This is complete re-write of the (sadly unmaintained) react-google-maps library. We thank tomchentw for his great work that made possible.

@react-google-maps/api provides very simple bindings to the google maps api and lets you use it in your app as React components.

Here are the main additions to react-google-maps that were the motivation behind this re-write

Install @react-google-maps/api

with PNPM

pnpm install @react-google-maps/api

with NPM

npm i -S @react-google-maps/api

import React from 'react'
import { GoogleMap, useJsApiLoader } from '@react-google-maps/api'

const containerStyle = {
  width: '400px',
  height: '400px',
}

const center = {
  lat: -3.745,
  lng: -38.523,
}

function MyComponent() {
  const { isLoaded } = useJsApiLoader({
    id: 'google-map-script',
    googleMapsApiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  })

  const [map, setMap] = React.useState(null)

  const onLoad = React.useCallback(function callback(map) {
    // This is just an example of getting and using the map instance!!! don't just blindly copy!
    const bounds = new window.google.maps.LatLngBounds(center)
    map.fitBounds(bounds)

    setMap(map)
  }, [])

  const onUnmount = React.useCallback(function callback(map) {
    setMap(null)
  }, [])

  return isLoaded ? (
    <GoogleMap
      mapContainerStyle={containerStyle}
      center={center}
      zoom={10}
      onLoad={onLoad}
      onUnmount={onUnmount}
    >
      {/* Child components, such as markers, info windows, etc. */}
      <></>
    </GoogleMap>
  ) : (
    <></>
  )
}

export default React.memo(MyComponent)

Migration from react-google-maps@9.4.5

if you need an access to map object, instead of ref prop, you need to use onLoad callback on <GoogleMap /> component.

Before:

// before - don't do this!
<GoogleMap
  ref={(map) => {
    const bounds = new window.google.maps.LatLngBounds()

    map.fitBounds(bounds)
  }}
/>

After:

<GoogleMap
  onLoad={(map) => {
    const bounds = new window.google.maps.LatLngBounds()
    map.fitBounds(bounds)
  }}
  onUnmount={(map) => {
    // do your stuff before map is unmounted
  }}
/>

If you want to use window.google object, you need to extract GoogleMap in separate module, so it is lazy executed then google-maps-api script is loaded and executed by <LoadScript />. If you try to use window.google before it is loaded it will be undefined and you'll get a TypeError.

Main features

• Simplified API
• Uses the new Context API
• Supports async React (StrictMode compliant)
• Removes lodash dependency => smaller bundle size 12.4kb gzip, tree-shakeable https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=@react-google-maps/api
• forbids loading of Roboto fonts, if you set property preventGoogleFonts on <LoadScript preventGoogleFonts /> component

Examples

Examples can be found in two places:

1. Official docs (powered by react-styleguidist.
2. A Gatsby app including some examples. See the examples folder

Advice

Using the examples requires you to generate a google maps api key. For instructions on how to do that please see the following guide

Community Help Resource

You can join our Slack channel

Contribute

Maintainers and contributors are very welcome! See this issue to get started.

How to test changes locally

When working on a feature/fix, you're probably gonna want to test your changes. This workflow is a work in progress. Please feel free to improve it!

1. In the file packages/react-google-maps-api/package.json change main to "src/index.ts"
2. In the same file, delete the module field
3. You can now use the package react-google-maps-api-gatsby-example to test your changes. Just make sure you change the import from @react-google-maps/api to ../../../react-google-maps-api

Since 1.2.0 you can use onLoad and onMount props for each @react-google-maps/api component, ref does not contain API methods anymore.

Since version 1.2.2 We added useGoogleMap hook, which is working only with React@16.8.1 and later versions.