reactjs-select + react-google-places-autocomplete: how to initialize with a place

Question

I am using a ready made component from https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-google-places-autocomplete for google autocomplete places

But I want to initialize it with place. (because when i edit a form, i have to show the place there)

import React from "react";
import GooglePlacesAutocomplete from "react-google-places-autocomplete";

const GooglePlacesAutocompleteComponent = () => (
  <div>
    <GooglePlacesAutocomplete
      apiKey="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
    />
  </div>
);

export default Component;

The above is the component

and use is as

<GooglePlacesAutocompleteComponent />}

I know react-google-places-autocomplete uses react-select AsyncSelect

    <AsyncSelect
      {...selectProps}
      loadOptions={fetchSuggestions}
      getOptionValue={({ value }) => value.place_id}
    />

the fetchsugestions is list of {label and value}

HOw to pass the intial value

Answer 1

This is best achieved following the docs of React-Select as suggested by the creator. But to achieve what you want to do, you'll need React State.

import { useState, useEffect } from "react"
import GooglePlacesAutocomplete from "react-google-places-autocomplete"

const Places = () => {
  const [data, setData] = useState("");
  //our default data

  useEffect(() => {
    data === "" ? setData("") : setData(data.label);
  }, [data]);
  // updating our default data

  return (
    <GooglePlacesAutocomplete
      apiKey={process.env.REACT_APP_MAP_API_KEY}
      autocompletionRequest={{
        componentRestrictions: {
          country: ["ng"] //to set the specific country
        }
      }}
      selectProps={{
        defaultInputValue: data, //set default value
        onChange: setData, //save the value gotten from google
        placeholder: "Start Destination",
        styles: {
          input: (provided) => ({
            ...provided,
            color: "#222222"
          }),
          option: (provided) => ({
            ...provided,
            color: "#222222"
          }),
          singleValue: (provided) => ({
            ...provided,
            color: "#222222"
          })
        }
      }}
      onLoadFailed={(error) => {
        console.log(error);
      }}
    />
  )
}

export default Places;

We use useEffect to update the defualt value we set on condition that we are getting an actual value. If we're not getting actual value, we're not saving it.