MapBoxGL plugins

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Has anyone had success importing plugins that run on top of the standard mapbox-gl package? I’m struggling to get them to import, like here https://beta.observablehq.com/@palewire/mapbox-geocoder-example

The documentation with this code seems to suggest this should work. https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-geocoder

I’m sure I am missing something fundamental and/or obvious. Thanks in advance for any help.

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Can’t investigate at the moment, but I have used the Mapbox geocoding API here:

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Thanks for the rapid tip. I actually saw your workaround to hit the API directly there, which is pretty impressive. I should have mentioned I stumbled upon it. It is hardly a pressing matter, so please don’t interrupt your evening, but I’m curious to learn if anyone has been able to use require to import the full functionality of the geocoder package.

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Hey Ben,

Sure thing - there are two tweaks required:

  • Mapbox includes a dist of a bundled single JavaScript file, but they don’t point to it with the unpkg field, so we need to load it specifically.
  • Then we need to add the CSS to make it look nice.

Here’s the diff: https://beta.observablehq.com/compare/0e25f8fcf88b6ced...851227c40c98cc40

-Tom

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Thanks for the help. So is this a minor oversight in their packaging config I could help them with by making a patch to their GitHub repo?

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Yep! Adding a field like "unpkg": "dist/mapbox-gl-geocoder.min.js" to the package.json should do it.

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PR filed Added unpkg instructions to package.json by palewire · Pull Request #171 · mapbox/mapbox-gl-geocoder · GitHub

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