In between discussions on the xpublish repo, and the chat I had with Pangeo folks, there was interest in less frontend focused APIs too, with OpenDAP being chief among those.
I started exploring this a little bit, so I'm adding a few notes for whomever picks up this thread.
It has a bit of a different dataset access API as compared to xpublish, so it might not be reasonable to combine the two directly, and the dataset access isn't overriddable the same way that xpublish is.
opendap-protocol is a sans I/O implementation of the OpenDAP protocol
In between discussions on the xpublish repo, and the chat I had with Pangeo folks, there was interest in less frontend focused APIs too, with OpenDAP being chief among those.
I started exploring this a little bit, so I'm adding a few notes for whomever picks up this thread.