GoogleMaps React: Open InfoWindow by Default - not from onClick

Question

I would like to have an info window open by default above a marker in a google maps component in my react project.

I have tried to accomplish this by having a ref for the marker component, the handler for which calls the marker onclick method which triggers the info window toggle.

However, I am finding that state is not updating despite my call to setState. I have tried doing this in componentDidMount and have also tried setting state directly in the marker mounting handler.

State is mutated successfully if clicking on the marker manually.

I saw this solution but it is a little inelegant as far as using it within react goes and I am frustrated in that I don't see any problems with my logic. It should work and I'd like to know why it doesn't.

Any help would be greatly appreciated - my code is below:

import { Component } from 'react';
import {Map, InfoWindow, Marker, GoogleApiWrapper} from 'google-maps-react';

const style = {
    height:'400px',
    width: '100%'
}

class MapView extends Component {

    constructor() {
        super();
        this.state = {
        showingInfoWindow: true, 
        activeMarker: {},         
        selectedPlace: {}         
      };
    }

    onMarkerClick = (props, marker, e) => {
        this.setState(prevState => ({
        selectedPlace: props,
        activeMarker: marker,
        showingInfoWindow: true
      }));
    }

    onMarkerMounted = element => this.onMarkerClick(element.props, element.marker, element);

    onClose = () => {
      if (this.state.showingInfoWindow) {
        this.setState({
          showingInfoWindow: false,
          activeMarker: null
        });
      }
    };

    render() {
        return(
            <Map
              google={this.props.google}
              style={style}
              initialCenter={{
                lat: {redacted},
                lng: {redacted}
              }}
              zoom={15}
              onClick={this.onMapClicked}
            >
                <Marker ref={this.onMarkerMounted} onClick={this.onMarkerClick}/>
                <InfoWindow
          marker={this.state.activeMarker}
          visible={this.state.showingInfoWindow}
          onClose={this.onClose}
        >
          <div>
            Your Location Here!
          </div>
        </InfoWindow>

            </Map>
        );
    }
} 

export default GoogleApiWrapper({
  apiKey: ('MY_API_KEY')
})(MapView);

Answer 1

I believe everything is fine with your example. It appears the reason why info window is not getting displayed is because the map is not yet fully loaded once onMarkerMounted function is triggered.

Here is the list of changes to display info window once the map is loaded:

a) introduce mapLoaded state to keep track whether map has been loaded or not:

this.state = {
  //...  
  mapLoaded: false
};

and set it to true once the map is loaded:

handleMapIdle = () => {
    this.setState({
      mapLoaded: true
    });
}


<Map
    google={this.props.google}
    style={style}
    initialCenter={this.props.center}
    zoom={this.props.zoom}
    onIdle={this.handleMapIdle}
  >
  ...
</Map>

and finally initialize marker once the map is loaded:

{this.state.mapLoaded && (
   <Marker ref={this.onMarkerMounted} onClick={this.onMarkerClick} />
)} 

Here is a demo