In-browser rendering
Render multi-terabyte datasets in the browser. Stream Zarr chunks straight to the GPU. No server, no pre-rendered tiles.
What it does
Zarrita.js reads Zarr chunks directly from the browser using fetch. deck.gl-raster pushes those chunks onto the GPU as raster tiles. The user pans, zooms, and recolors a multi-terabyte dataset interactively, with no server-side rendering pipeline and no pre-rendered tile cache.
Why it matters
- No tiling pipeline: skip the offline pre-render, the tile cache, and the tile server
- Native cloud-native: the data lives in Zarr on object storage, the renderer reads it directly
- Laptop-grade performance: the GPU does the heavy lifting
Live demo
(Embed of the chosen deck.gl-raster Zarr demo lands here once the URL is picked. See dev-docs/poster-implementation-plan.md Task 11.)
How to use it
js
import * as zarr from 'zarrita'
// ... see the deck.gl-raster examples for full Deck setup
const store = zarr.HTTPStore.fromUrl('https://example.com/dataset.zarr')
const arr = await zarr.open(store, { kind: 'array' })
// pass `arr` into a deck.gl-raster layer's tile loader