Avoiding node and npm, somewhat, with Deno and JSR

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 compiled the Swedish land cover maps to a PNG image to let me colour the point cloud that way). The original front end was vibe coded, as I am both not a front end developer so lack the experience, and I really do not enjoy the development experience between the languages involved and the debug cycle. But I wanted to explore the data a little to see if this makes any sense, and so vibe coding got me most of the way to what I wanted in terms of exploration. That demo has been somewhat successful,…