Vue Google Autocomplete

A Vue.js autosuggest component for the Google Maps Places API.

Benefits

I have tried to use different Vue Google Autocomplete components, but did not find any that would solve my needs. So below I would like to mention what you can get from this exact component:

Load more than one autocompletion inputs (I could not achieve this with existing vue components)
Getting geolocation data (latitude, longitude) for found address object along with other address data (country, city, state, street, house number, zip code). So no need to do additional geocode request on backend side.
No external dependencies
You can get access to underlying PlaceResult object to get more details about found location.

Installation

This component uses Google Maps Places API to get geo suggests for autocompletion, so you have to include the Google Maps Places API in the <head> of your HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>
  <head>
    …
    <script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&libraries=places"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    …
  </body>
</html>

To obtain API key please visit the Google Developer Console. The API's that you have to enable in your Google API Manager Dashboard are Google Maps Geocoding API, Google Places API Web Service and [Google Maps Javascript API] (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/).

The easiest way to use Vue Google Autocomplete is to install it from npm or yarn.

npm install vue-google-autocomplete --save

yarn add vue-google-autocomplete

Usage

The Vue Google Autocomplete works out of the box by just including it.

import VueGoogleAutocomplete from 'vue-google-autocomplete'

In your template you can use this syntax:

<vue-google-autocomplete 
    id="map" 
    className="form-control"
    placeholder="Start typing"
    v-on:placeChanged="getFromData"
>
</vue-google-autocomplete>

Properties

id

Type: String

required ID for the input container.

className

Type: String

Class to the input container.

placeholder

Type: String Default: Start typing

The input field will get this placeholder text.

Example

Please note that you need to provide what method will listen (v-on:placeChanged) to an event when the address data is obtained.

<template>
    <div>
        <h2>Your Address</h2>

        <vue-google-autocomplete 
            id="map" 
            className="form-control"
            placeholder="Please type your address"
            v-on:placeChanged="getAddressData"
        >
        </vue-google-autocomplete>
    </div>
</template>

<script>
    import VueGoogleAutocomplete from 'vue-google-autocomplete'

    export default {
        components: { VueGoogleAutocomplete },

        data: function () {
            return {
              address: '' 
            }
        },

        methods: {
            getAddressData: function (addressData) {
                this.address = addressData;
            }
        }
    }
</script>

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