Avoiding node and npm, somewhat, with Deno and JSR (opens in new tab)

For the last few months I've slowly been iterating the lidar data viewer from a static HTML/Javascript thing with a few manually built JSON files to indicate where the point cloud data is, over to a "proper" service where I have an OCaml backend that will index and server up the data to the front end. The eventual aim is to have the backend properly index multiple distinct source of data and fuse them, unlike the current version which uses smoke and mirrors to achieve that (e.g., I manually c...