Introduction to ArcGIS API for JavaScript

Ben Ramseth - Instructor Technical Lead

Charlotte, NC
bramseth@esri.com
@esriMapNinja
Goal of this session is to start you in the direction...

• ...of becoming a GIS web developer ninja

Paths you can take

1. Web App Builder for ArcGIS

2. ArcGIS Online templates
3. Esri Leaflet
4. ArcGIS API for Javascript
- Create a Map
- Adding your data
- Add layers individually
- Web map
- Map Widgets
- Asking questions of your data
- Visualization
- Geoprocessing
- Editing
Web App Builder
for ArcGIS
Why not try easy...
ArcGIS Online
Templates
Have the Esri Developers get you
started...
Esri Leaflet
Light and Simple...
ArcGIS API for Javascript
Esri's building blocks for web dev...
What's is the ArcGIS API for Javascript?

• Building blocks for creating web mapping applications

• Use html/js/css skills to build an app
• Built on top of Dojo
- http://dojotoolkit.org/
developers.arcgis.com
Your guide to success...
esri.github.io
Additional good stuff...
Adding a map
Start from the beginning...
Add your data
Display the data you worked so hard
to create...
Map widgets
Provide usability to the app...
Asking Questions
Of your data...
Visualization
Making the data pretty and
informative...
Geoprocessing
So you say you are in to that GIS
stuff...
Editing data
Through a web mapping
application...
 Let's have some questions

Ben Ramseth - Instructor Technical Lead Charlotte, NC

Demo code on Github under
"BennyBaruba" bramseth@esri.com - @esriMapNinja