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What's New

Modules in @deck.gl-community are independently maintained, so this page will only list occasional major changes.

Please refer the documentation of each module for detailed news.

v9.2 - In developments​

Target Release Date: Nov 2025

High-level changes

  • All deck.gl-community modules have been updated to deck.gl v9.2.
  • Internal: Tests updated to use vitest instead of jest

@deck.gl-community/graph-layers​

  • Graph styling: new edge decorator 'arrow' that renders arrows on directional edges.
  • Graph styling: unified stylesheet prop with shorthand attribute references for node, edge, and decorator styles.
  • Graph style constants are now defined using literals instead of objects
  • New example visualizing DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graphs).

Deprecations:

  • Graph style constants are now replaced by literal string constants
    • Replace NODE_TYPE.CIRCLE with 'circle', EDGE_TYPE.LINE with 'line' etc.

v9.1​

Release Date: July 2025

High-level changes

  • All deck.gl-community modules have been updated to deck.gl v9.1.

@deck.gl-community/infovis-layers (New module)

  • HorizonGraphLayer
  • TimeAxisLayer
  • VerticalGridLayer
  • Utilities for deck.gl view management

@deck.gl-community/geo-layers (New module)

  • GlobalGridLayer - A new "generic" global grid layer that works against a pluggable GlobalGrid decoder.
  • GlobalGrid - A small abstraction API for global grid decoders, making it easier to write visualizations / applications that can work with multiple global grids.
  • A5Grid, H3Grid, S2Grid, GeohashGrid, QuadkeyGrid - Pre-defined global grid system "decoders" for some of the most popular global grids that can be used with the GlobalGridLayer

v9.0​

November 20, 2024:

@deck.gl-community/editable-layers)

  • When drawing circles or ellipses properties of the created geometry are now stored in the vector's properties.

April 15, 2024:

@deck.gl-community/editable-layers)

This new layer pack is a fork of Uber's nebula.gl framework (which unfortunately no longer provides write access to maintainers).

Feb 29, 2024:

@deck.gl-community/layers

@deck.gl-community/layers now support deck.gl v9.

Pre v9.0 Updates​

December 22, 2023

@deck.gl-community/layers v0 - A new module intended to containing a collection of useful community layers. Initial layers are TileSourceLayer, DataDrivenTile3DLayer.

April 14, 2023:

@deck-graph-layers - A new layer pack for rendering graphs (nodes and edges). Forked from Uber's archived graph.gl repo.