How to implement an address search with Angular and Google Maps
With more than a billion monthly users, Google Maps is one of the most used/known applications. Since Angular version 9, it’s also available as an Angular component.
At the time of writing this article, the docs on the official @angular/google-maps repo are very minimalistic. The reason for that is that @angular/google-maps is just an Angular wrapper of the official GoogleMaps. To implement features you often have to consult the official Google Maps API docs.
Some developers I talked to found this confusing. Some of them felt lost when implementing a feature that uses Google Maps in Angular.
Lately, I myself have had to implement a feature using Google Maps. After successfully having implemented my feature, I decided to write this post to make your life easier.
What is it about?
In this blog post, we will learn how to implement a Google Map with a search box and an address autocompletion.
