Store Locator

Add a mobile responsive store locator to your React web app.

Installation

Here's a quick summary of the steps.

1. Install the @zxzxlch/store-locator package.
2. Install the Google API.
3. Import the StoreLocator component.
4. Map your data to the store items.

1. Install the package

npm install --save @zxzxlch/store-locator

2. Install the Google API

Include this script tag in your HTML file. This will load the places and geometry libraries from Google Maps JavaScript API.

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=_____YOUR_API_KEY_____&libraries=places,geometry"></script>

Remember to replace with your API key.

3. Import the StoreLocator component

Import the StoreLocator component and add it to your app. Import the default CSS file too so everything looks right.

For example,

import StoreLocator from "@zxzxlch/store-locator";
import "@zxzxlch/store-locator/dist/main.css";

class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="App">
        <StoreLocator />
      </div>
    );
  }
}

4. Map your data to the store items.

To display your data in the StoreLocator component without extra configuration, your data has to match this structure:

[
  {
    "index": 1,
    "title": "Woodlands Primary School",
    "description": "Fernvale Link",
    "accessory": "3 km",
    "location": { "lat": 1.39807105477126, "lng": 103.877933381804 }
  },
  // more items...
]

Otherwise, you have to use a mapping function to transform your data. For example,

function mapPlacesToStoreItems(places, filters) {
  // Get the user-input search location so we can calculate proximity for each place
  const { currentLocation } = filters;

  // Parse each place into the right format
  return places.map(place => {
    const {
      id: index,
      name: title,
      address,
      lat,
      lng
    } = place;

    const description = address.join(', ');

    // Calculate proximity distance and set accessory text
    var accessory;
    var distance;

    if (currentLocation) {
      // Calculate distance
      distance = calculateDistance({ lat, lng }, currentLocation);
      accessory = distanceToHumanString(distance);
    }

    return {
      index,
      title,
      description,
      accessory,
      location: { lat, lng },
      distance
    };
  });
}

...

<StoreLocator
  data={data}
  mapPlacesToStoreItems={mapPlacesToStoreItems}
/>

calculateDistance and distanceToHumanString are helper functions that are included with the package. To import the functions together with the component, for example,

import { default as StoreLocator, calculateDistance, distanceToHumanString } from "@zxzxlch/store-locator";