Custom Google Maps styles, with night mode! 🌒

#javascript #react #webdev #html

Dark mode has become a trend in modern day websites (pun intended, i'm so funny 🤪). Recently, I worked on a project where we had a highly customized Google Map. There were a lot of Map and DOM interactions along with styling. A lot went into it. 🥴

While studying how to style Google Maps, I stumbled across a very good resource that gives you readymade Google Maps styles, including Night Mode.

Introducing, Google Maps Styling Wizard! 🎊🎉

How To 🐱‍👓

Literally, select any style you want and click on the Finish button. It gives styles for the selected map theme in JSON format. After that, all you have to do is this.

const map = new google.maps.Map(element, {
  styles: [...], // Paste your styles here!
});

Of course, make sure to set appropriate zoom level, position coordinates and API keys etc.

PS, the JSON formats are also a good way to learn how to style your maps. For more info, look into the official Google Map styling guide.

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