This is a project to create an interactive accompaniment to the book The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai, by Ha Jin. The book details the life story of the eight-century Tang Dynasty Poet Li Bai, widely recognized as one of the greatest if not the greatest Chinese poet in history.
Li Bai led a nomadic life, moving frequently throughout China as he sought to advance his career. While the book tells a compelling story, some may find it difficult to track the movement of the protagonist without a map. This project aims to create an accompanying tracker to add to the experience of reading the book.
This repo automatically builds through Vercel to https://learn-gatsby-mapbox.now.sh/ with each new commit
The source data of the itinerary to be traced in this interactive map is saved in src/data/libai-stop.geojson
This site is based off of the Gatsby-Mapbox starter made by brendan-ward.
This starter gets you going quickly with Mapbox GL in Gatsby.
It uses React hooks to wrap the Mapbox GL JS object.
Because Mapbox GL is provided as a native JS object within components/Map/index.jsx, instead of a React Component, you need to coordinate application state directly with the map object.
Map configuration is stored in config/map.js. You need to provide basic map configuration such as initial zoom level, and you can provide optional sources and layers according to the Mapbox GL style specification.
You must set the environment variable GATSBY_MAPBOX_API_TOKEN to your Mapbox API token.