type: guide title: "Server-optional quickstart" description: "Running against public GeoServices and OGC endpoints with no Honua server in the loop."

Standalone quickstart moved to First Map

The server-optional public-endpoint workflow is now the canonical First Map quickstart. It accepts anonymous GeoServices FeatureServer layers and OGC API Features endpoints, then shows the discovered source, accepted query plan, bounded result, MapLibre map, popup, filter, attribution, observation/freshness, cache status, degradation, and cleanup evidence.

There is one runnable implementation:

npm run demo:quickstart:mock

The historical commands remain compatibility aliases and execute that same app:

npm run demo:standalone
npm run demo:standalone:mock

For the lower-level caller-owned-map API, see the focused mountSource data-to-map bridge recipe. For a framework-specific integration, keep using the focused React quickstart; it is not a second First Map implementation.