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Re:PostGIS at 20, the Beginning by tundrax on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @05:38AM (#27352262)
Leafletjs was the only oss frontend option back in 2015-2016 when we ditched Esri and created our own in-house app, based on Electron. Apart from Mapbox, which was freemium.
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Re:PostGIS at 20, the Beginning by petepete on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @05:53AM (#27352351)
Did you consider OpenLayers?

It's been around for a long time and is really powerful when compared to other open source web-based mapping/GIS options - unfortunately I never really need the advanced features in the projects I tend to work on.

https://openlayers.org/

Edit, my favourite from their list of examples: https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/sea-level.html

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Re:PostGIS at 20, the Beginning by tundrax on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:54AM (#27366446)
I think OpenLayers had come up as an option back then, but Leaflet was just easy to adopt, I guess.
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