Location Autocomplete

LocationAutocomplete is a tested React component that introduces an input field with autocomplete functionality. It leverages the Google Places API to provide a typeahead effect with address predictions, based on your established criteria.

Features:

• configurable to:
  • [x] bias suggestions by "target area" or by current location (without restricting)
  • [x] provide suggestions by location type
  • [x] restrict results to up to five countries
• does not import autocomplete library if has already been imported by a third party. Note: Other libraries may still insert the autocomplete library afterwards, which will trigger the following warning:

You have included the Google Maps API multiple times on this page. This may cause unexpected errors.

Usage:

Install the package:

$ npm install location-autocomplete --save

At the top of your .jsx file, import the component:

import LocationAutocomplete from 'location-autocomplete';

Instantiate your component and set the properties that fit your needs:

<LocationAutocomplete
  name="venue"
  placeholder="Venue Name"
  targetArea="New York, NY"
  locationType="(regions)"
  googleAPIKey="yourApiKey"
  onChange={() => {}}
  onDropdownSelect={() => {}}
/>

Required props:

• googleAPIKey OR googlePlacesLibraryURL -- Only ONE of these is required for autocomplete functionality.

• onChange -- function to handle field changes. This will fire on each key strike.

• onDropdownSelect -- function to handle selection of dropdown option. This will fire when the user clicks on one of the locations on the dropdown. You can use this function to handle updates of multiple fields.

onDropdownSelect(component) {
  // this will give you access to the entire location object, including
  // the `place_id` and `address_components`
  const place = component.autocomplete.getPlace();

  // this will return a reference to the input field
  const inputField = component.input;

  // other awesome stuff
}

Visit Google's API documentation to get your Google API key.

Other permitted props:

• Any attribute that's normally accepted on an input field (e.g. name, disabled, etc.).

• targetArea -- "City, State" to bias results to a specific geographic location. If this value is not set, the component will bias results by current location. Note: Biasing results does not restrict. See componentRestrictions if you would like to return results only from a specific region.

• locationType -- String value used to restrict results to a specific location type. For a complete list of supported types, visit Google's API documentation. When not set, the component will include all location types.

• componentRestrictions -- filter results by up to five countries. Countries must be passed as as a two-character, ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 compatible country code. Multiple countries must be passed as a list of country codes: componentRestrictions={{ country: ['it'] }}

Example Usage:

<!-- location-field.jsx -->
import React from 'react';
import LocationAutocomplete from 'location-autocomplete';

const LocationField = props => (
  <LocationAutocomplete
    onChange={() => {}}
    onDropdownSelect={() => {}}
    googleAPIKey={GOOGLE_API_KEY}
    className="location"
    {...props}
  />
);

export default LocationField;

<!-- registration-form.jsx -->
import React from 'react';
import LocationField from 'src/location-field.jsx';

<!-- ... -->
<LocationField
  componentRestrictions={{ country: ['us', 'pr'] }}
  locationType="establishments"
/>
<!-- ... -->

Development:

Install dependencies:

$ npm install

Run tests in watch mode:

$ npm run test:watch

Run the linter:

$ npm run lint

Start the server:

$ npm run bundle && npm run serve

Don't forget the following commands before committing!

$ npm run test
$ npm run lint:test
$ npm run lint
$ npm run build

Ways to Contribute:

1. Create an issue
2. Open a PR

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