Consider support for MapLibreGL

[snickell]

As it sounds like mapbox-gl is no longer open source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347310

There's a free software bazaar-style fork of mapbox-gl, maplibre-gl which I was early-on helping with: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/maplibre-gl

Is there a clean way we can support both with these bindings?

[curran]

I'd be interested in this as well.

[curran]

Related (HT @klokan): https://github.com/visgl/react-map-gl/blob/master/docs/get-started/get-started.md#using-with-a-mapbox-gl-fork

From there:

Using with a mapbox-gl Fork

Install your choice of fork along with react-map-gl, for example:

npm i react-map-gl maplibre-gl

In your bundler's configuration, set the forked library to replace any reference from mapbox-gl. This can be done in Webpack with something like:

// webpack.config.js
module.export = {
  // ...
  resolve: {
    alias: {
      'mapbox-gl': 'maplibre-gl'
    }
  }
}

In rollup:

// rollup.config.js
import alias from '@rollup/plugin-alias';

module.exports = {
  // ...
  plugins: [
    alias({
      entries: [
        { find: 'mapbox-gl', replacement: 'maplibre-gl' },
      ]
    })
  ]
};

[exaucae]

Is there any update about this request? I'd be glad to help too.

[jayarjo]

A mapping like this:

module.export = {
  // ...
  resolve: {
    alias: {
      'mapbox-gl': 'maplibre-gl'
    }
  }
}

doesn't seem to work in NextJS + TypeScript. Any recommendation for such setup?

[exaucae]

@jayarjo , have yu added the alias in tsconfig.json?