Class hierarchy

The components exposed by React-Leaflet inherit from the following hierarchy.
Classes indicated as abstract can be extended to create custom components, while other components should be used as provided and cannot be extended.

• React.Component
  • ControlledLayer (abstract): base class used by LayersControl to handle adding and removing its layers.
    • LayersControl.BaseLayer
    • LayersControl.Overlay
  • MapControl (abstract): base class for all controls, handles positioning.
    • AttributionControl
    • LayersControl
    • ScaleControl
    • ZoomControl
  • MapEvented (abstract): base class handling extracting and updating Leaflet events.
    • Map: top-level component instantiating a Leaflet map and providing it to its children.
    • MapComponent (abstract): base class handling map panes.
      • DivOverlay (abstract)
        • Popup
        • Tooltip
      • MapLayer (abstract): base class for all map layers, handling adding and removing the layer from the map.
        • GridLayer (abstract): base class for tile layers, handles opacity and z-index.
          • TileLayer
          • WMSTileLayer
        • ImageOverlay
        • LayerGroup
        • Marker
        • Path (abstract): handles styling of vector layers.
          • Circle
          • CircleMarker
          • FeatureGroup
          • GeoJSON
          • Polygon
          • Polyline
          • Rectangle