Pigeon Maps - ReactJS maps without external dependencies

Demo: https://mariusandra.github.io/pigeon-maps/ (using maps from Mapbox, Wikimedia and OSM)

What is it?

Are you tired of waiting 3 seconds to parse 200kb of Google Maps JavaScript just to display a few tiles and a marker? 140kb of minified Leaflet too much?

Welcome to the club!

This project aims to provide a performance-first React-centric extendable map engine.

We're currently at:

• ~20KB minified
• ~5KB gzipped

Implemented:

• Show tiles
• Arbitrary overlays (markers, etc)
• Move the map by dragging
• Move the map by touch on mobile
• Zooming with the scroll wheel
• Zooming by touch
• Fractional zooming (e.g. to level 12.2)
• Zoom without flickering (keep old tiles until new ones load)
• Smooth animated zooming
• Slide when dragging and letting go
• Event handling (clicks, etc)
• Double click and double tap zooming

Missing:

• Double tap and then swipe touch zooming

Install

One of:

# with yarn
yarn add pigeon-maps

# still on npm
npm install --save pigeon-maps

Code

Demo (source)

import Map from 'pigeon-maps'
import Marker from 'pigeon-marker'
import Overlay from 'pigeon-overlay'

const map = (
  <Map center={[50.879, 4.6997]} zoom={12} width={600} height={400}>
    <Marker anchor={[50.874, 4.6947]} payload={1} onClick={({ event, anchor, payload }) => {}} />

    <Overlay anchor={[50.879, 4.6997]} offset={[120, 79]}>
      <img src='pigeon.jpg' width={240} height={158} alt='' />
    </Overlay>
  </Map>
)

Inferno support

Pigeon Maps works very will with Inferno. Just use these import paths:

import Map from 'pigeon-maps/inferno'
import Marker from 'pigeon-marker/inferno'
import Overlay from 'pigeon-overlay/inferno'

Here's the same demo running in Inferno

Plugins

pigeon-overlay (demo) - an anchored overlay

pigeon-marker (demo) - a simple marker component

If you're interested in making a new plugin, check out the code of pigeon-marker as a starting point. Feel free to clone the repo and rename every mention of pigeon-marker to pigeon-myplugin. You'll get a demo and linking system out of the box. More documentation about this coming soon. Contributions welcome.

API

Map

defaultCenter - Coordinates of the map center in the format [lat, lng]. Use if the component is uncontrolled.

center - Coordinates of the map center in the format [lat, lng]. Use if the component is controlled, e.g. you'll be listening to onBoundsChanged and passing a new center when the bounds change.

zoom - Current zoom level 12

width - Width of the component in pixels. Must be set.

height - Height of the component in pixels. Must be set.

provider - Function that returns a TMS URL: (x, y, z) => url.

animate - Animations enabled, true.

attribution - What to show as an attribution. React node or false to hide.

attributionPrefix - Prefix before attribution. React node or false to hide.

onClick - When map is clicked `function ({ event, latLng, pixel })``

onBoundsChanged - When the bounds change, function ({ center, zoom, bounds, initial }). Use this for a controlled component, then set center and zoom when it's called. This callback also gets called on the initial mount (when the first bounds become known). In this case the prop initial will be set to true. It will be false on all subsequent calls.

Overlays

<Map /> takes random React components as its children. The children may have these special props:

anchor - At which coordinates [lat, lng] to anchor the overlay with the map.

offset - Offset in pixels relative to the anchor.

The children get passed these special props:

left - Pixels from the left of the map, calculated from anchor and offset

top - Pixels from the top of the map, calculated from anchor and offset

mapState - An object { center, zoom, bounds, width, height } that gets updated at every animation frame.

latLngToPixel - A helper function (latLng, center, zoom) that returns the position in pixels [x, y] for any [lat, lng]. The last 2 arguments are optional.

pixelToLatLng - A helper function (pixel, center, zoom) that converts any pixel coordinates [x, y] to [lat, lng]. The last 2 arguments are optional.

Use these two functions to create beautiful widgets. See a sample overlay.

Add the class pigeon-drag-block to disable dragging on the overlay. Add the class pigeon-click-block to disable map background clicks on the element.

Alternatively use the <Overlay /> component. It accepts anchor, offset and classNames as its props and positions itself accordingly.

Yeah, but why pigeon??

Pigeons are experts in magnetoreception. Good pigeons can find their way home from anywhere.

Magnets were essential in making the first maps. With a good map you can find your way home from anywhere.

Thus, pigeon.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeon

Pigeon image by Robert Claypool