[Roadmap] v8.0 plan: mapbox-gl@3.5 and maplibre-gl@5.0

[Pessimistress]

Target Use Case

Restructure the package to better handle the increasing divergence of the Maplibre and Mapbox APIs.
The current 7.x type-sharing system is not compatible with mapbox-gl v3.5 official types and some maplibre-gl v5.0 breaking changes.

Proposal

The code base will be split into independent implementations for mapbox-gl and maplibre-gl wrappers. There will be 3 endpoints exported:

• react-map-gl/maplibre: Maplibre wrapper, compatible with maplibre-gl@>=4. It is also independently published as @vis.gl/react-maplibre. An alpha release is available for testing here.
• react-map-gl/mapbox: Mapbox wrapper, compatible with mapbox-gl@>=3.5.0. It will also be independently published as @vis.gl/react-mapbox.
• react-map-gl/mapbox-legacy: the legacy Mapbox wrapper, compatible with mapbox-gl v1.x and v2.x.

Support for maplibre-gl v3 and older will be deprecated because we're not aware of appealing reasons/significant blockers against upgrading. Please reply to this thread if you have a special use case.

[jgarplind]

Sounds great. Will happily alpha test @vis.gl/react-mapbox once it is available.

[nilsingwersen]

So should new PRs for the maplibre globe for example be made to the react-maplibre repo and not this?

[Pessimistress]

@nilsingwersen the plan is to consolidate all source code into this repo.

[Pessimistress]

8.0.0-alpha is published for testing:
https://github.com/visgl/react-map-gl/blob/master/docs/upgrade-guide.md#upgrading-to-v80

[jgarplind]

Worked well for me using Mapbox.

I noticed that <Source data> has more stringent types now, but it felt more like it exposed our inconsistencies than forcing us into something we didn't want, so all around good experience using the alpha.

[KiwiKilian]

Is https://github.com/visgl/react-maplibre now defunct? Is @vis.gl/react-maplibre published from this repository and should PRs regarding MapLibre now be made here? Then I would port this PR over to this repository.

[Pessimistress]

I just archived https://github.com/visgl/react-maplibre. Sorry for the confusion.

[Pessimistress]

v8.0.0 is in production.