Undefined (reading 'coords') using @ionic-native/geolocation – ionic / react

I am trying to center the map in the geoposition and I get the following error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘coords’)

If I console log the position in the getLocationHandler, the object seems to have the coordinates.

import GoogleMapReact from "google-map-react";
import { Geolocation } from "@ionic-native/geolocation";
import { IonLoading } from "@ionic/react";

const Map = (props) => {

  const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(false);
  const [position, setPosition] = useState();

  const getLocationHandler = async () => {
    try {
      setIsLoading(true);
      const position = await Geolocation.getCurrentPosition();
      setPosition(position);
    } catch (e) {}
    setIsLoading(false);
  };

  useEffect(() => {
    getLocationHandler();
  }, []);

  return (
    <>
      <IonLoading
        isOpen={isLoading}
        message={"Getting Location..."}
        onDidDismiss={() => setIsLoading(false)}
      ></IonLoading>
      <div className="map">
        <div className="google-map" style={{ height: "100vh", width: "100%" }}>
          <GoogleMapReact
            bootstrapURLKeys={{ key: .... }}
            defaultCenter={
              {
                lat: position.coords.latitude,
                lng: position.coords.longitude,
              }
            }
            defaultZoom={11}>
          </GoogleMapReact>
        </div>
      </div>
    </>
  );
};

export default Map;

>Solution :

On your first render, position will be undefined so when you’re trying to use position.coords.latitude it’s throwing that error. I would probably leverage your isLoading state and only render the second part of your component when that is false –

<div className="google-map" style={{ height: "100vh", width: "100%" }}>
  {!isLoading && (
    <GoogleMapReact
      ...etc
  )}
</div>

Also, it would probably make sense to set the initial value of isLoading to true instead of manually setting that to true inside your async loading function.

Alternatively, instead of checking isLoading you could directly check position?.coords?.latitude