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    Interface with the React Leaflet Map API with the useRef and useEffect React Hooks
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Interface with the React Leaflet Map API with the useRef and useEffect React Hooks

InstructorColby Fayock

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In this lesson, you will learn how to use React hooks to interface with the Leaflet Map API in React Leaflet. We'll connect a ref to our Map component using the useRef hook and then use the useEffect hook to access that ref, find our Map instance, and use it to fly to a new location.

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~ 3 years ago

Hi... it seems newest version of react leaflet using <Map Container> does not support accessing map via ref (https://github.com/PaulLeCam/react-leaflet/issues/841) and one has to rely on useMap hook provided by module.

Just mentioning...

Colby Fayock
Colby Fayock(instructor)
~ 3 years ago

thanks for the heads up - if you want to see a way to handle this, you can check out this example: https://github.com/colbyfayock/gatsby-starter-leaflet/blob/master/src/pages/index.js#L100