visgl / visgl/deck.gl

JSON transport API review

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Since May 27, 2020.

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Description

As we enter a multi-language ecosystem built on-top of it, the JSON API (see here) would benefit from an API review. Some use cases like the ones below are not effortlessly handled by the current syntax:

  • Switching base-map providers (see https://github.com/visgl/deck.gl/pull/4612#discussion_r430784406)
  • Interaction handlers (How do we best specify onClick or onHover without writing functions?)
  • UI components (can/should the JSON API support UI components like vega-lite or similar frameworks do? Scales and legends, for example)
  • Binary transport

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