docs: stop describing an embedded viewer (MAPCO-11482)

docs/about.md

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Three things commonly surprise people setting Shigola up for the first time:
 
 | | |
 |:---|:---|
-| **The service root is the OGC landing page.** | `/` returns JSON. The embedded viewer is at `/viewer` — `/viewer` redirects to `/viewer/`, and the trailing slash matters because the viewer's assets are referenced relatively. An unknown path returns 404. |
+| **The service root is the OGC landing page.** | `/` returns JSON. An unknown path returns 404. |
 | **Cache keys begin with the tiling scheme.** | The key is `{tileMatrixSetId}/{map}/{layer}/{z}/{x}/{y}`. Without the scheme, tiles cut in two different schemes would collide at the same `z/x/y`. |
 | **Cache writes do not block the response.** | Every cache, chained or not, hands its write to a bounded pool after the response is flushed. See [Layered cache](./layered-cache.md#writes-do-not-block-the-response). |
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Three things commonly surprise people setting Shigola up for the first time:
   [go-spatial/tegola](https://github.com/go-spatial/tegola), an open source vector tile server
   created and maintained by the **[Go Spatial](https://github.com/go-spatial) team** and documented
   at [tegola.io](https://tegola.io). Effectively all of this codebase is their work: the providers,
-  the geometry processing, the MVT encoder, the tile pipeline and the viewer all originate there.
+  the geometry processing, the MVT encoder and the tile pipeline all originate there.
   Tegola is MIT licensed, Shigola keeps that licence and retains its copyright notice, and all
   credit for what Shigola inherited belongs upstream.
 - **morecantile** — Shigola's `tms` package is a faithful Go port of

docs/getting-started.md

@@ -39,21 +39,18 @@ This will take care of
 
 wait until the migration step exits and you're done.
 
-## Shigola viewer
+## Check it is serving
 
 This example comes with the `mvt_postgis` provider. After you ran the prerequisites,
-you can access the shigola viewer via `http://localhost:8080/viewer/`.
+`http://localhost:8080/` returns the [OGC API - Tiles](./ogc-api-tiles.md) landing page — a JSON
+document — and `http://localhost:8080/collections` lists your data as OGC collections.
 
-> **Note the path.** `/` is the [OGC API - Tiles](./ogc-api-tiles.md) landing page — a JSON
-> document — and the viewer lives at `/viewer`. Requesting `/viewer` redirects to `/viewer/`; the
-> trailing slash matters, because the viewer's assets are referenced relatively.
+The same data is reachable two ways — as OGC collections and through the native `/maps/...` routes
+(for more on the difference see
+[provider layers](./configuration.md#provider-layers "provider layers")).
 
-While you are here, `http://localhost:8080/collections` lists the same data as OGC collections.
-
-(for more on the differences see
-[provider layers](./configuration.md#provider-layers "provider layers").
-
-![Bonn, Germany](/images/bonn_internal_viewer.png)
+To see the tiles on a map, point a client at them: the [tutorials](/tutorials) do this with
+MapLibre, OpenLayers and Mapbox GL.
 
 ## Your first vector map
 

docs/http-endpoints.md

@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ description: "Shigola API endpoints"
 Shigola serves two tile APIs side by side: the **native** routes below, and an
 **[OGC API - Tiles](./ogc-api-tiles.md)** surface documented separately.
 
-> **The service root is the OGC landing page.** `/` returns JSON; the embedded viewer is at
-> `/viewer`. An unknown path returns 404.
+> **The service root is the OGC landing page.** `/` returns JSON. An unknown path returns 404.
 
 ## Native routes
 
@@ -125,20 +124,13 @@ For the OGC equivalent — TileJSON 3.0, per collection and per tiling scheme 
 ### `GET` /maps/:map/style.json
 
 Returns an automatically generated [Mapbox GL style](https://docs.mapbox.com/style-spec/) for the
-map, used by the embedded viewer.
+map, for a client to load directly.
 
 ### `GET` /metrics
 
 Prometheus metrics, when a Prometheus observer is configured. Cache metrics are listed under
 [Layered cache](./layered-cache.md#metrics).
 
-### `GET` /viewer/
-
-The embedded viewer. `/viewer` redirects to `/viewer/` — the
-viewer's assets are referenced relatively and only resolve from a URL ending in a slash.
-
-Excluded from the build with `-tags noViewer`.
-
 ## OGC API - Tiles routes
 
 Full documentation on [OGC API - Tiles](./ogc-api-tiles.md).

docs/ogc-api-tiles.md

@@ -14,10 +14,8 @@ the same bytes from the same cache entry.
 
 ### The service root is the landing page
 
-OGC API - Tiles requires a landing page at the service root, so `/` returns JSON and the embedded
-viewer is served from `/viewer`. `/viewer` redirects to `/viewer/` — the viewer's assets are
-referenced relatively and only resolve from a URL ending in a slash. Point bookmarks, reverse-proxy
-rules and health checks accordingly. An unknown path returns 404.
+OGC API - Tiles requires a landing page at the service root, so `/` returns JSON. Point bookmarks,
+reverse-proxy rules and health checks accordingly. An unknown path returns 404.
 
 ### Cache keys begin with the tiling scheme
 

src/pages/download.md

@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ go build -mod vendor ./cmd/shigola
 
 Dependencies are vendored, so `-mod vendor` builds offline and pins exactly what CI used.
 
-To build with the embedded viewer regenerated, run `go generate ./...` first — it shells out to
-`npm` to build the viewer, and no-ops without it.
-
 ## Docker
 
 ```sh

src/pages/support.md

@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ Most problems fall into a handful of shapes the docs already cover:
 - **The cache is not being read.** See
   [Cache is not being read](/documentation/debugging#cache-is-not-being-read) — a key format change
   and a failing tier both present as a cache that never hits.
-- **`/` returns JSON instead of the viewer.** That is the
-  [OGC landing page](/documentation/ogc-api-tiles); the viewer is at `/viewer/`.
+- **`/` returns JSON.** That is the [OGC landing page](/documentation/ogc-api-tiles). To see the
+  tiles on a map, point a client at them, as the [tutorials](/tutorials) do.
 - **A config key seems to be ignored.** Unknown keys are not rejected, so a typo is silent — check
   the spelling against [Configuration](/documentation/configuration).