vue-google-places-api

vue-google-places-api

Installation

You need Vue.js version 2.0+ and an Google PLACE API key. This plugin is a renderless component. It comes without any css as the main goal is to use it with differents frameworks.

If you looking for framework oriented components, you can import them separately (see pre-configured section) PR are welcome for other components

Install via npm

npm install vue-google-places-api
yarn add vue-google-places-api

Import and use

Note: if you want a specific preconfigured component, skit this step and import it as a simple component (see pre-configured section)

import Vue from 'vue'
import CustomGoogleAutocomplete from 'vue-google-places-api'

...

Vue.use(CustomGoogleAutocomplete)

<template>
  <custom-google-autocomplete :options="options" @select="selected = $event)")
    <div slot-scope="{ inputAttrs, inputEvents, loading, results, query, selectPrediction, hasResults }">
      <input type="search" v-bind="inputAttrs" v-on="inputEvents" />
      <div v-for="(prediction, index) in results" :key="'prediction-' + index" @click="selectPrediction(prediction)">
        {{ prediction.description }}
      </div>
    </div>
  </custom-google-autocomplete>
</template>

<script>
export default {
  data() {
    return {
      selected: null
    }
  }
}
</script>

Props

Name	Type	Default	Description
options	Object	see options section	Plugin options (see options section)

You can also pass all props available on an input (placeholder, name..)

Options

options = {
  apiKey: YOUR_API_KEY,
  deepSearch: true,
  cors: false,
  params: {},
  focus: false
}

Name	Type	Default	Description
apiKey	String	null	Your Google PLACE Api key (REQUIRED)
deepSearch	Boolean	false	Get more informations about selected place (geometry etc..)
cors	Boolean	false	Set to true when project is running locally
params	Object	{}	Google Autocomplete optional parameters
focus	Boolean	false	Focus input
debounceTime	Number	400	Time in ms before trigger a new Google api call

Params object is useful to refine predictions, for example if you want to get first predictions near to a location within a radius distance in a certain language you can set params like this :

params = {
  location: `${lat},${lng}`,
  radius: 1000,
  language: 'fr'
}

See Optional parameters section for more informations

Events

@select event is triggered when a prediction is selected. It send an object with datas about the location

Template and slot-scope

In order to be more flexbile, you are able to make your own results template with slot-scope.

props = {
  inputAttrs: Object,
  inputEvents: Object,
  query: String,
  results: Array,
  loading: Boolean,
  selectPrediction: Function,
  hasResults: Boolean
}

Pre-configured Components

Bulma dropdown markup.

<template>
  <bulma-dropdown(:options="options" @select="selected = $event") placeholder="Search"/>
</template>

<script>
import { BulmaDropdown } from 'vue-google-places-api'

export default {
  components: {
    BulmaDropdown
  },
  data() {
    return {
      selected: null,
      options: {
        apiKey: process.env.VUE_APP_PLACE_API_KEY,
        deepSearch: true,
        cors: true,
        focus: false,
        params: {
          location: '43.3,5.4',
          radius: 1000,
          language: 'fr'
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
</script>

To customize loading text and no results text, two slots are availables : loading and empty. Input is binded with $attrs

Bootstrap dropdown.

<template>
  <bootstrap-dropdown(:options="options" @select="selected = $event") name="input-name"/>
</template>

<script>
import { BootstrapDropdown } from 'vue-google-places-api'
export default {
  components: {
    BootstrapDropdown
  },
  data() {
    return {
      selected: null,
      options: any = {
        apiKey: process.env.VUE_APP_PLACE_API_KEY,
        deepSearch: true,
        cors: true,
        focus: false,
        params: {
          location: '45.52345,-122.67621',
          radius: 1000,
          language: 'en'
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
</script>

To customize loading text and no results text, two slots are availables : loading and empty. Input is binded with $attrs