Mastering ArcGIS Server Development with JavaScript

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Mastering ArcGIS Server Development with JavaScript

By : Raymond Kenneth Doman

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Mastering ArcGIS Server Development with JavaScript

By: Raymond Kenneth Doman

Overview of this book

Mastering ArcGIS Server Development with JavaScript

Mastering ArcGIS Server Development with JavaScript

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Your First Mapping Application

Your First Mapping Application

Features of the API

The ArcGIS JavaScript API community

Our first Web Map

Setting up the HTML document

Asynchronous Module Definition

Loading required modules

Adding some action

Showing the results

A note on proxies

Digging into the API

Digging into the API

Finding the ArcGIS JavaScript API documentation

Introducing geometry objects

Symbols and renderers

The Dojo Widget System

The Dojo Widget System

A brief history of the Dojo framework

Introducing dojo, dijit, and dojox

The dojoConfig packages

Defining your widget

Working with Evented modules

An overview of the _WidgetBase module

Working with other _Mixins

The event system

Creating our own widget

Finding Peace in REST

Finding Peace in REST

Looking at a map server

Working with JSON

Feature services

Common JSON objects

Back to our application

Editing Map Data

Editing Map Data

The use cases for webmap editing

Map editing requirements

Feature services

Securing editing services

A new mapping application

Charting Your Progress

Charting Your Progress

Mixing graphs into our maps

Our story continues

Using dojox charting

Using Dojox Charts in popups

Using Dojo Charts in our application

Introducing D3.js

Using D3.js in our application

Plays Well with Others

Plays Well with Others

Compatibility with other libraries and frameworks

Popular libraries to play with

An overview of jQuery

Adding jQuery to your app

An overview of Backbone.js

Putting some Backbone in your app

An overview of Knockout.js

Using Knockout in our app

A brief overview of AngularJS

Making a web mapping app more Angular

Overall results with other frameworks

Styling Your Map

Styling Your Map

The inner workings of CSS

Styling tips and tricks

Troubleshooting

Restyling our app

Mobile Development

Mobile Development

Embracing mobile

Mobile is different

The ArcGIS compact build

Working with touch

Our application

Testing

Testing through code

Testing as you code

Intern testing framework

Jasmine testing framework

Our application

The Future of ArcGIS Development

The Future of ArcGIS Development

Our application

Creating a webmap

Developing against an ArcGIS Online webmap

Index

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Web AppBuilder

Developers have made the same map tools over and over for different sites. Almost all generic web mapping applications have a drawing tool, a measuring tool, a print tool, a legend, and so on. The developers at ESRI China have implemented an idea to create an application that builds JavaScript web mapping apps that use ArcGIS Online web maps. They call the tool Web AppBuilder, that is shown in the following screenshot:

Web AppBuilder creates full-page web mapping applications using the ArcGIS JavaScript API. The applications use responsive design elements and fit any screen. Publishers have a choice of color scheme, title text, logos, and an assortment of widgets. Web AppBuilder applications are published and hosted through ArcGIS Online, so you don't need your own hosting environment to create a web map application.

You can create generic Web Appbuilder applications straight from ArcGIS Online. Using an existing AGOL webmap, you can create an application, add several default...