react-map-gl
React friendly API wrapper around MapboxGL JS (by visgl)
react-leaflet
React components for Leaflet maps (by PaulLeCam)
| react-map-gl | react-leaflet | |
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| 11 | 41 | |
| 8,209 | 5,454 | |
| 0.3% | 0.5% | |
| 8.3 | 4.1 | |
| 4 months ago | 17 days ago | |
| TypeScript | TypeScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
react-map-gl
Posts with mentions or reviews of react-map-gl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-09-24.
- Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting
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Library recommendations for an interactive world map
I use this heavily https://visgl.github.io/react-map-gl/ and it's amazing for building complex maps with rich overlays, but you won't get a search box for countries out of the box.
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How to find the documentation of a specific version?
And it points to version 6.1 documentation at https://github.com/visgl/react-map-gl/tree/6.1-release/docs
- Anyone used Mapbox JS? Question on syntax to update initialized map
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Burger Map: Fetching and Displaying Data with React
To display the data on a map let's install the ReactMapGL component.
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When to use react-map-gl or plain mapbox-gl in React app?
I'm working on a React app with a mapbox component and am trying to understand the use case for react-map-gl vs the examples on the Mapbox site that just use mapbox-gl. From the React GitHub issues they mention this in regards to performance -
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Managing mapbox-gl state in React app
react-map-gl - is a solution from uber, perhaps the most sophisticated among others, one of the main drawbacks: Steep learning curve, having sufficiently rich functionality, including for managing state, it is rather difficult to understand the library api Has almost 1MB bundle size, which is quite a lot
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Tutorial: How to create a global vaccinations dashboard using React, Mapbox, and Bootstrap
React-map-gl docs
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Implementation of cluster module for react-map-gl
mapbox is used to create high-quality maps and react-map-gl is a wrapper around mapbox for react.
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Familiar with google-map-react, but wanted to use Mapbox on a new project, does anything similar exist for mapbox?
https://github.com/alex3165/react-mapbox-gl or https://visgl.github.io/react-map-gl/
react-leaflet
Posts with mentions or reviews of react-leaflet.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-12.
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Building a Location-Based App with Appwrite
React Leaflet because we’re using React and Leaflet is an open source mobile friendly maps library with lots of plugins
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How can I integrate Leaflet to React Native
I found the React-leaflet npm. Is it compatible with React Native? or it's only built for React?
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33 React Libraries Every React Developer Should Have In Their Arsenal
30.react-leaflet
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How to make this map clickable?
Check out React Leaflet https://react-leaflet.js.org/
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Making React-Leaflet work with NextJS
But in the case of React Leaflet, you may need to put in some more efforts.
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How do you make detailed maps in React?
You might wanna check out Leaflet (https://leafletjs.com/) which is a free, open-source library for interactive maps. Combine that with React-Leaflet (https://react-leaflet.js.org/) for seamless React integration. You can find Pond/Lake GeoJSON data at https://gis.mass.gov/ and load it into your map to make it interactive. Good luck!
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Let's build a Google Maps clone with React, Leaflet, and OneSDK
Leaflet has many official and third party plugins and wrappers. Since we’re using React, we can use React Leaflet which provides components for rendering Leaflet maps in React.
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How do I create a map like the image below in react? I need some ideas please..
Do you need to just make an image that looks like a map, or do you need to make an actual map (i.e. derived from spatial data)? I think leaflet is still the go to OSS webmap library, and will do hexbins. It has a react version.
- Best free Map API or an alternative to Google Maps for a React JS project
- Free Google Maps in React
What are some alternatives?
When comparing react-map-gl and react-leaflet you can also consider the following projects:
google-map-react - Google map library for react that allows rendering components as markers :tada:
react-mapbox-gl - A React binding of mapbox-gl-js
pigeon-maps - ReactJS Maps without external dependencies
react-googlemaps - A declarative React interface to Google Maps