How to show self-hosted tiles using deck.gl MVtLayer?

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This may be in the series of dumb questions, but when I look at https://deck.gl/docs/api-reference/geo-layers/mvt-layer, I do not understand how to make a MVTLayer that fetches self-hosted tiles without React pieces. Can someone help? This would feel to be even large interest now that buildless is also becoming a thing in web programming.

What I would like to achieve is a simple HTML (e.g. index.html) file that uses a script tag like <script src="https://unpkg.com/deck.gl@8.4.5/dist.min.js"></script> and the example from the aforementioned Deck.gl that looks like (I changed the URL)

import DeckGL from '@deck.gl/react';
import {MVTLayer} from '@deck.gl/geo-layers';

function App({viewState}) {
  const layer = new MVTLayer({
    data: `https://<selfhostedurl>/{z}/{x}/{y}.pbf`,

    minZoom: 0,
    maxZoom: 23,
    getLineColor: [192, 192, 192],
    getFillColor: [140, 170, 180],

    getLineWidth: f => {
      switch (f.properties.class) {
        case 'street':
          return 6;
        case 'motorway':
          return 10;
        default:
          return 1;
      }
    },
    lineWidthMinPixels: 1
  });

  return <DeckGL viewState={viewState} layers={[layer]} />;
}

but instead make this a without React. I see it requires a bit more code on how to define a canvas HTML element and use it. Maplibre example would be OK too. 🙂 There is one Maplibre example at https://codepen.io/snickell/pen/dypOWzj.

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