To load the Places Library, first load the Maps JavaScript API, by adding the
inline bootstrap loader to your application code, as shown in the following snippet:
<script>(g=>{varh,a,k,p="The Google Maps JavaScript API",c="google",l="importLibrary",q="__ib__",m=document,b=window;b=b[c]||(b[c]={});vard=b.maps||(b.maps={}),r=newSet,e=newURLSearchParams,u=()=>h||(h=newPromise(async(f,n)=>{await(a=m.createElement("script"));e.set("libraries",[...r]+"");for(king)e.set(k.replace(/[A-Z]/g,t=>"_"+t[0].toLowerCase()),g[k]);e.set("callback",c+".maps."+q);a.src=`https://maps.${c}apis.com/maps/api/js?`+e;d[q]=f;a.onerror=()=>h=n(Error(p+" could not load."));a.nonce=m.querySelector("script[nonce]")?.nonce||"";m.head.append(a)}));d[l]?console.warn(p+" only loads once. Ignoring:",g):d[l]=(f,...n)=>r.add(f)&&u().then(()=>d[l](f,...n))})({key:"YOUR_API_KEY",v:"weekly",// Use the 'v' parameter to indicate theversionto use (weekly, beta, alpha, etc.).// Add otherbootstrap parametersas needed, using camel case.});</script>
Next, use theawaitoperator to callimportLibrary()from within anasyncfunction, as shown here:
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