alt Hacker NewsIt's on our roadmap to support alternate projections, but as you can imagine it's a big project that so far nobody has been willing to pay for to implement unfortunately.
MapLibre GL JS does support globe mode. https://maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-js/docs/examples/display-a-... May we should update our examples to use globe mode when showing examples, especially those that show a world map. We will take that feedback into consideration!
You can use the Equal Earth projection with a plugin: https://equal.bbox.earth/maplibre-americas/
MapLibre's globe mode is both fantastic and performant. Also, it's literally just the one option to change it, and your tile formats/CRS don't need to change either.
It's the easiest way to escape from web mercator projections with no real downsides that I have discovered yet. Also, there is a built-in control if you want to offer a button to toggle between web mercator view, and globe view, since it's all just rendering changes.