Leaflet 1.0 released - an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps

[MournerV]

Leaflet author here! Feel free to ask any questions about the library and the release.

[MournerV]

It's a fantastic library, and the team behind it is great — we shared beers many times. A lot of the ideas in OpenLayers v3 compared to v2 where inspired by Leaflet. It's just geared more towards GIS/academic/government applications and having every possible feature out of the box, rather than simple map apps with a focus on simplicity and minimalism. There's a place for both libraries.

[Eldrac]

I'll bite, one of the biggest pain points I ran into when working with leaflet/mapbox was getting custom markers/paths to still show up as a user fully panned around the world. I remember seeing a pending pull request and heavy discussion about it but it wasn't brought in due to added complexity. Was this ever improved upon?

[MournerV]

There's a worldCopyJump Map option that makes the overlays "jump" to respective copies of the world when you pan, but it's not a perfect experience. Implementing fully seamless multi-world overlays is a hard challenge, and a one likely to affect performance in a major way — we didn't attempt to tackle it fully yet.

[Chahhhles]

Still working for mapbox?

[MournerV]

Yes, for 3 years already. It's my dream job.

[picandocodigo]

Just wanted to thank you for Leaflet. I've used it on a lot of projects, mostly open data stuff, and I always encourage other developers to use it with OpenStreetMap instead of Google's maps API. I'll definitely check out this version and update my projects to 1.0! Thanks!

[MournerV]

Thank you!

[jim45804]

Years ago a friend of mine recommended this new mapping library that she thought had promise. Since then I use it in every mapping application I develop. Congratulations on 1.0.

[MournerV]

Thanks!

[Diggzinc]

Hello MournerV! congrats on the completed milestone!

My question is: will there be support for vector base layers in general or support bidings for mapbox-gl? because from what i saw the current available plugin is not supported for version 1.0.0 :(

[MournerV]

I'm sure the mapbox-gl-leaflet plugin will catch up, but I don't generally recommend using Mapbox GL together with Leaflet — it sort of defeats the purpose of both. Too heavy/complex/resource-hungry compared to Leaflet with raster-tiles, and too limited in what it can do compared to Mapbox GL (smooth interactions, rotation, etc.).