MapBox GL JS looks very close to Google Maps (in 3D mode) up-close, but if you zoom out enough, the world just looks like an endlessly repeating strip of flat 2D world maps, like this:
If you zoom out in Google Maps, you can see that it's actually rendered on a big sphere, the way Earth actually looks from space:
How do I enable this look in MapBox GL JS? I mean without using some complicated hack involving third-party libraries.
Best Answer
Globe view with GL JS is currently work in progress, for more information including a working demo see:
https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10784
According to a Mapbox developer they are trying to make globe view available this fall (2021):
https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10784#issuecomment-877066650