React Three Map

react-three-map is a bridge to use react-three-fiber inside react-map-gl.

Until now you had:

imperative	declarative (react)
Maplibre/Mapbox	react-map-gl
THREE.js	react-three-fiber

Now with react-three-map, you can use them together 🤜⭐🤛.

npm install react-three-map

📖 Examples

Check out our examples here (powered by Ladle).

🔍 What does it look like?

Let's build the same react-three-fiber basic example, but now it can be inside a map. (live demo).

1. Import Canvas from react-three-map instead of @react-three/fiber.
2. Give it a latitude and longitude so it knows where to position the scene in the map.
3. Everything else should work just as usual.

import "maplibre-gl/dist/maplibre-gl.css"
import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client'
import React, { useRef, useState } from 'react'
import { useFrame } from "@react-three/fiber"
import { useRef, useState } from "react"
import Map from "react-map-gl/maplibre"
import { Canvas } from "react-three-map/maplibre" 
// import { Canvas } from "react-three-map" // if you are using MapBox

function BasicExample() {
  return <Map
    antialias
    initialViewState={{
      latitude: 51,
      longitude: 0,
      zoom: 13,
      pitch: 60
    }}
    mapStyle="https://basemaps.cartocdn.com/gl/positron-gl-style/style.json"
  >
    <Canvas latitude={51} longitude={0}>
      <hemisphereLight
        args={["#ffffff", "#60666C"]}
        position={[1, 4.5, 3]}
      />
      <object3D scale={500}>
        <Box position={[-1.2, 1, 0]} />
        <Box position={[1.2, 1, 0]} />
      </object3D>
    </Canvas>
  </Map>
}

🤔 Why we build this?

Look how complex is to add just one ThreeJS object to a map.

Look how complex is to create your custom root for R3F.

You can now replace all that complexity and hundreds of lines of code with the <Canvas> component exported by react-three-map, which includes a tone of extra features and seamless integration, supporting pointer events, raycasting, and much more, all out of the box.

⚙️ API

Canvas

Same as in @react-three/fiber, the <Canvas> object is where you start to define your React Three Fiber Scene.

import "maplibre-gl/dist/maplibre-gl.css"
import Map from "react-map-gl/maplibre"
import { Canvas } from 'react-three-map/maplibre'
// import { Canvas } from "react-three-map" // if you are using MapBox

const App = () => (
  <Map 
    initialViewState={{ latitude: 51, longitude: 0, zoom: 13 }} 
    mapStyle="https://basemaps.cartocdn.com/gl/positron-gl-style/style.json" >
    <Canvas latitude={51} longitude={0}>
      <pointLight position={[10, 10, 10]} />
      <mesh>
        <sphereGeometry />
        <meshStandardMaterial color="hotpink" />
      </mesh>
    </Canvas>
  </Map>
)

It shares most of the props from R3F <Canvas>, so you can check them directly in the @react-three/fiber docs. There are a few important exceptions though, which are mentioned bellow.

Render Props

Prop	Description	Default
latitude	The latitude coordinate where to add the scene.
longitude	The longitude coordinate where to add the scene.
altitude	The altitude coordinate where to add the scene.	0
frameloop	Render mode: "always", "demand".	"always"

Render Props removed from @react-three/fiber

Because the scene now lives in a map, we leave a lot of the render and camera control to the map, rather than to R3F.

Therefore, the following <Canvas> props are ignored:

• gl
• camera
• resize
• orthographic
• dpr

Coordinates

This component allows you to have 3D objects at different coordinates.

import { Canvas, Coordinates } from 'react-three-map'

<Canvas latitude={51} longitude={0}>
  <Coordinates latitude={50} longitude={0}>
    <mesh><sphereGeometry /></mesh>
  </Coordinates>
  <Coordinates latitude={52} longitude={0}>
    <mesh><sphereGeometry /></mesh>
  </Coordinates>
</Canvas>

Props	Description	Default
latitude	The latitude coordinate where to add the scene.
longitude	The longitude coordinate where to add the scene.
altitude	The altitude coordinate where to add the scene.	0

useMap

Access the map from inside react-three-map.

import { useMap } from "react-three-map";
// import { useMap } from "react-three-map/maplibre"; if you use maplibre
const Component = () => {
  const map = useMap();
  return <>...</>
}