Demystifying Mapbox Styles

If you've spent any time building digital maps with Mapbox, you've used a style — but you may not have given it much thought. Most tutorials and example code abstract it down to a single URL, and the map just works . That's by design. But styles are doing a lot more than most developers realize, and understanding how they actually work opens up patterns that are useful whether you're just getting started or have been shipping Mapbox maps for years. This post pulls back the curtain: what a style