bchewy-maps

Welcome!

Hi! Vue Google Maps Community Fork is a communitary repository. It is a set of the most used Google Maps components made for VueJS 3.

About this repository

This repository was forked in October/2022 after the original repository's community decide that it was the best for the project. In the same discussion you will find every information you need about our motivation.

We have an update! Fawmi answered us, please access the discussion to know more about it!

Changelog

You can follow the official changelog here!

Documentation

You can find a detailed documentation here. It will show you how to use every component this library contains and demonstrate some examples for you.

Also, you can enter in this discussion to talk about or read the documentation changelog.

It is in our plans to make it better and more detailed, but for now it might help you start using the library.

Installation

You can install this library using this command:

npm install vue-google-maps-community-fork

Basic usage

To use this library you will need an API Key. You can learn how to get an API Key here.

Configure Vue to use the Components

In your main.js

import { createApp } from 'vue'
import VueGoogleMaps from 'vue-google-maps-community-fork'

const app = createApp(App)
app
  .use(VueGoogleMaps, {
    load: {
      key: 'YOUR_API_KEY_COMES_HERE',
    },
  })
  .mount('#app')

If you are configuring your project please notice

You might be getting the following error:

Requested module 'fast-deep-equal' does not provide an export named 'default'

Some notes about this:

• We are aware of this problem.
• It doesn't seems that we have control over this, so we hope that it will be fixed soon enough by the responsibles.
• To avoid it right now, you need to do this configuration in your vite.config.js:

    optimizeDeps: {
        include: [
            "vue-google-maps-community-fork",
            "fast-deep-equal",
        ],
    },

• This IS NOT a fix! This is just a hack we are using to avoid the problem.
• We encourage you to subscribe to that issue to stay in touch with this problem

Using our components anywhere

<template>
  <GMapMap :center="center" :zoom="7" map-type-id="terrain" style="width: 100vw; height: 900px">
  </GMapMap>
</template>

<script>
export default {
  name: 'App',
  data() {
    return {
      center: { lat: 51.093048, lng: 6.84212 },
    }
  },
}
</script>

Components

Markers

If you need to add markers to the Map, add GMapMarker as child of GMapMap component.

<template>
  <GMapMap :center="center" :zoom="7" map-type-id="terrain" style="width: 500px; height: 300px">
    <GMapMarker :key="marker.id" v-for="marker in markers" :position="marker.position" />
  </GMapMap>
</template>
<script>
export default {
  name: 'App',
  data() {
    return {
      center: { lat: 51.093048, lng: 6.84212 },
      markers: [
        {
          id: 'dfsldjl3r',
          position: {
            lat: 51.093048,
            lng: 6.84212,
          },
        },
      ],
    }
  },
}
</script>

Center markers in the middle of the map

If you want to zoom in on the map as far as you can, but still see all markers, reference this code snippet.

<script setup lang="ts">
import { onMounted, ref, watch } from 'vue';

const markers = ref([
  {
    lat: 47.8557578,
    lng: 12.1133382,
  },
  {
    lat: 47.8570908,
    lng: 12.1199985,
  },
  {
    lat: 47.8568879,
    lng: 12.1270439,
  },
]);

const googleMapRef = ref();

/**
 * Centers the map on the markers and zooms to fit the bounds.
 */
async function fitMarkerBounds() {
  const googleMapInstance = await googleMapRef.value.$mapPromise;

  const bounds = new window.google.maps.LatLngBounds();

  markers.value.forEach((marker) => {
    bounds.extend(marker);
  });

  googleMapInstance.fitBounds(bounds);
}

// center markers on first render
onMounted(fitMarkerBounds);

// center markers, if they are adjusted
watch(markers, fitMarkerBounds);
</script>

<template>
  <GMapMap ref="googleMapRef">
    <GMapMarker
        v-for="(marker, index) in markers"
        :key="`map-marker-${index}`"
        :position="marker"
    />
  </GMapMap>
</template>

Cluster

If you have too many markers, it is helpful to cluster markers. You can easily cluster markers by wrapping your markers with GMapCluster component.

Note: clusters were not working in the original version of this package. All of the clusters are here because of the community fixes. If you're having trouble with it please try using the docs. Also, feel free to open discussions or issues to get help.

<template>
  <GMapMap :center="center" :zoom="7" map-type-id="terrain" style="width: 500px; height: 300px">
    <GMapCluster>
      <GMapMarker
        :key="index"
        v-for="(m, index) in markers"
        :position="m.position"
        :clickable="true"
        :draggable="true"
        @click="center = m.position"
      />
    </GMapCluster>
  </GMapMap>
</template>
<script>
export default {
  name: 'App',
  data() {
    return {
      center: { lat: 51.093048, lng: 6.84212 },
      markers: [
        {
          position: {
            lat: 51.093048,
            lng: 6.84212,
          },
        }, // A long list of clusters
      ],
    }
  },
}
</script>

Heatmap

If you need to add heatmap layer to the Map, add visualization library in load config and add GMapHeatmap as child of GMapMap component.

import { createApp } from 'vue'
import VueGoogleMaps from '@fawmi/vue-google-maps'

const app = createApp(App)
app
  .use(VueGoogleMaps, {
    load: {
      key: 'YOUR_API_KEY_COMES_HERE',
      libraries: 'visualization',
    },
  })
  .mount('#app')

<template>
  <GMapMap ref="myMapRef" :center="center" :zoom="zoom" style="width: 100%; height: 600px">
    <GMapHeatmap :data="heatData"></GMapHeatmap>
  </GMapMap>
</template>
<script>
export default {
  name: 'App',
  setup() {
    const center = { lat: 52.2985593, lng: 104.2455337 }
    const zoom = 12
    const myMapRef = ref()
    const heatData = ref([])

    watch(myMapRef, (googleMap) => {
      if (googleMap) {
        googleMap.$mapPromise.then((map) => {
          heatData.value = [
            { location: new google.maps.LatLng({ lat: 52.2985593, lng: 104.2455337 }) },
          ]
        })
      }
    })

    return {
      center,
      zoom,
      heatData,
      myMapRef,
    }
  },
}
</script>

Checkout docs for more component

Access map object

If you want to access google map object, you can access it by getting ref of the map object.

<template>
  <GMapMap ref="myMapRef" />
</template>
<script>
export default {
  mounted() {
    console.log(this.$refs.myMapRef)
  },
}
</script>

Map options

You can pass Map options using options property:

See MapOptions for a complete list of available options.

<GMapMap
  :options="{
    zoomControl: true,
    mapTypeControl: false,
    scaleControl: false,
    streetViewControl: false,
    rotateControl: false,
    fullscreenControl: true,
    disableDefaultUi: false,
  }"
>
</GMapMap>

More components

Many other components are also supported. Checkout docs for more.

Nuxt 3 usage

Warning: this is part of the old documentation and I never used Nuxt, please let me know if it will work properly this way.

In order to your Nuxt 3 project work properly with this library, you need to add vue-google-maps-community-fork to build.transpile property in your nuxt.config.ts.

Also, as pointed here, you will need to add @googlemaps/markercluster into it as well for your builded project work properly.

Here is an example:

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  build: {
    transpile: ['vue-google-maps-community-fork', '@googlemaps/markercluster'],
  },
})

After that, you need to configure your plugin ~/plugin/vueGoogleMaps.ts.

import { defineNuxtPlugin } from '#app'
import VueGoogleMaps from 'vue-google-maps-community-fork'

export default defineNuxtPlugin((nuxtApp) => {
  nuxtApp.vueApp.use(VueGoogleMaps, {
    load: {
      key: 'YOUR_API_KEY_COMES_HERE',
    },
  })
})

Sponsorship

Please read this discussion where we talk about sponsorships.