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Get Started

You may find complete project setups in get-started examples.

Installation

Using react-map-gl requires node >= 12 and react >= 16.3.

npm install react-map-gl mapbox-gl @types/mapbox-gl

Example

app.tsx
import * as React from 'react';
import Map from 'react-map-gl/mapbox';
// If using with mapbox-gl v1:
// import Map from 'react-map-gl/mapbox-legacy';
import 'mapbox-gl/dist/mapbox-gl.css';

function App() {
return (
<Map
mapboxAccessToken="<Mapbox access token>"
initialViewState={{
longitude: -122.4,
latitude: 37.8,
zoom: 14
}}
style={{width: 600, height: 400}}
mapStyle="mapbox://styles/mapbox/streets-v9"
/>
);
}

See about Mapbox tokens for alternatives to providing a Mapbox token.

Styling

The base map library requires its stylesheet be included at all times. The marker, popup and navigation components in react-map-gl also need the stylesheet to work properly.

The above example code imports the CSS file directly into the app. Most bundlers support this syntax out-of-the-box or with an official plugin.

Alternatively, you may add the stylesheet to the head of your page:

index.html
<link href='https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/v<YOUR_MAPBOX_VERSION>/mapbox-gl.css' rel='stylesheet' />

Find out your mapbox version by running yarn list mapbox-gl or npm ls mapbox-gl.