Add marker to Google Map on Click

Question

I\'m surprisingly struggling to find a very simple example of how to add a marker(s) to a Google Map when a user left clicks on the map.

I have looked around for the

Answer 1

Currently the method to add the listener to the map would be

map.addListener('click', function(e) {
    placeMarker(e.latLng, map);
});

And not

google.maps.event.addListener(map, 'click', function(e) {
    placeMarker(e.latLng, map);
});

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