How to use polylinedacorator with react leaflet

Question

I have created polyline using react-leaflet, I want to show direaction on polyline using polylinedacorator.But I don't know how to do that with react-leaflet. I found multiple examples with leaflet, but not with react-leaflet

const polyline = [[51.505, -0.09], [51.51, -0.1], [51.51, -0.12]]

export default class VectorLayersExample extends Component<{}> {
  render() {
    return (
      <Map center={center} zoom={13}>
       <TileLayer
          attribution='&amp;copy <a 
            href="http://osm.org/copyright">OpenStreetMap</a> 
            contributors'
          url="https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png"
      />
    <Polyline color="lime" positions={polyline} />
    </Map>
 )
 }

Can any one tell me how to use polylinedacorators with above code

Answer 1

Leaflet.PolylineDecorator could be integrated with React-Leaflet as follows:

a) install leaflet and leaflet-polylinedecorator packages: npm i leaflet leaflet-polylinedecorator

b) once installed, the following component demonstrates how to utilize Polyline component with L.polylineDecorator:

import React, { useRef, useEffect } from "react";
import { Map, TileLayer, Polyline, withLeaflet } from "react-leaflet";
import L from "leaflet";
import "leaflet-polylinedecorator";

const PolylineDecorator = withLeaflet(props => {
  const polyRef = useRef();
  useEffect(() => {
    const polyline = polyRef.current.leafletElement; //get native Leaflet polyline
    const { map } = polyRef.current.props.leaflet; //get native Leaflet map

    L.polylineDecorator(polyline, {
        patterns : props.patterns
    }).addTo(map);
  }, []);
  return <Polyline ref={polyRef} {...props} />;
});

Usage

function MyMap(props) {
  const { center, zoom } = props;

  const polyline = [[57, -19], [60, -12]];

  const arrow = [
    {
      offset: "100%",
      repeat: 0,
      symbol: L.Symbol.arrowHead({
        pixelSize: 15,
        polygon: false,
        pathOptions: { stroke: true }
      })
    }
  ];


  return (
    <Map center={center} zoom={zoom}>
      <TileLayer url="http://{s}.tile.osm.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png" />
      <PolylineDecorator patterns={arrow} positions={polyline} />
    </Map>
  );
}