Custom layers

Custom deck.gl layers are available in pydeck, loaded dynamically.

Layers are loaded dynamically by the frontend, when the output from :meth:pydeck.bindings.deck.Deck.show or :meth:pydeck.bindings.deck.Deck.to_html is called and loaded.

Custom layers must subclass deck.gl's Layer or CompositeLayer classes. They must also include deck.gl and @deck.gl/layers as external libraries in the webpack config. You can see this repo <https://github.com/ajduberstein/pydeck_custom_layer>__ for a minimal example.

Code for usage of that example layer can be seen here:

.. literalinclude:: ../examples/custom_layer.py :language: python

.. image:: gallery/images/custom_layer.png :width: 500