What is the difference between UserLocation and LocationPuck ?

[TheUncharted]

I was wondering what are the difference between both components ?
They are both rendering a circle, UserLocation has an onUpdate that is really useful but LocationPuck does not but seems to have more customization capabilities ?
What are the use cases for them ? Can or should we use both ?

[mfazekas]

LocationPuck is native while UserLocation is react-native. So UserLocation causes a pre-render on each location update. So if LocationPuck works for you that's preferred for performance reasons, but UserLocation should be ok as well. On longer term we might (or might not) deprecate UserLocation in favour of LocationPuck.

[TheUncharted]

is it possible to have the onUpdate on the LocationPuck ? or is there another way to do it ?

[mfazekas]

You can get the current location via locationManager

https://github.com/rnmapbox/maps/blob/main/src/modules/location/locationManager.ts

[nixolas1]

Awesome! Was looking for a way to do locationUpdates with LocationPucks and v11 mapbox.
Could be nice to have documented elsewhere ;)