How to get the area string from a polygon using leaflet.draw

I found that none of the above answers worked for calculating the area of non-contiguous polygons. Here's an example polygon where the above functions returned an area of 0:

For anyone who needs to do that, here is the code that worked for me (using the L.GeometryUtil function from Leaflet.draw):

var poly = // Your polygon layer here; may or may not be contiguous
var area = 0;
for (island of poly.getLatLngs()) {
    // If the polygon is non-contiguous, access the island
    if (island.length < 2) {
        island = island[0]
    }
    // Sum the area within each "island"
    area += L.GeometryUtil.geodesicArea(island);
}

You can access the geometry utility library provided with Leaflet.

var area = L.GeometryUtil.geodesicArea(layer.getLatLngs());

In your example, you are trying to access a control itself, which is what the variable createPolygon is assigned to. Instead, you want to take the area of the layer that got drawn.

map.on('draw:created', function (e) {
  var type = e.layerType,
      layer = e.layer;
  if (type === 'polygon') {
    polygons.addLayer(layer);
    var seeArea = L.GeometryUtil.geodesicArea(layer.getLatLngs());
    console.log(seeArea);
  }
}

Once you verify you are getting the area, you can just assign it to the variables that populate the table next to the map.

Note: area will be in squareMeters by default

L.GeometryUtil.geodesicArea(layer.getLatLngs())[0] should get you the area.

But I ended up using leaflet-geoman-free to do the drawing and use turf.js to get the area.

map.pm.enableDraw('Polygon', {
   snappable: true,
   snapDistance: 20,
});

map.on('pm:create', e => {
   const layer = e.layer
   alert(turf.area(layer.toGeoJSON()))
});