
Apply visual effects, filters, focus areas, and blend modes to map layers. Use for highlighting features, spatial filtering, display filters, and CSS-like visual emphasis.
Create advanced cartographic symbols using CIM (Cartographic Information Model). Use for complex multi-layer symbols, animated markers, custom line patterns, and data-driven symbology.
Work with advanced layer types including WMS, WFS, WMTS, OGCFeatureLayer, KMLLayer, MapImageLayer, CatalogLayer, MediaLayer, and VideoLayer. Use for OGC services, server-side rendering, georeferenced media content, and live video feeds from ArcGIS Video Server.
Write Arcade expressions for dynamic calculations in popups, renderers, labels, and field calculations. Use for data-driven styling, custom labels, and computed fields.
Implement authentication with ArcGIS using OAuth 2.0, API keys, and identity management. Use for accessing secured services, portal items, and user-specific content.
Embed an Arcade expression editor in applications using the Coding Components package. Use for building Arcade authoring, testing, and debugging interfaces.
Work with coordinate systems, projections, and coordinate conversion. Use for transforming coordinates and displaying position in multiple formats.
Core utilities including Accessor pattern, Collection, reactiveUtils, promiseUtils, esriRequest, intl (internationalization), and workers. Use for reactive programming, property watching, HTTP requests, locale formatting, async operations, and background processing.
Create, manipulate, and analyze geometries using geometry classes and geometry operators. Use for spatial calculations, geometry creation, buffering, intersections, unions, and mesh operations.
Handle user interaction with map views including hit testing, feature highlighting, sketching, and event handling. Use when detecting clicks on features, highlighting selections, drawing or editing shapes on the map, or responding to pointer, keyboard, and drag events.
Work with ArcGIS Knowledge graphs for storing, querying, and visualizing connected data using KnowledgeGraphLayer, LinkChartView, and openCypher queries. Use for graph databases, relationship visualization, and entity exploration.
Add and manage data layers in ArcGIS maps. Use for FeatureLayer, TileLayer, SceneLayer, GeoJSONLayer, and all other layer types. Covers layer configuration, queries, and management.
Call ArcGIS REST service endpoints for routing, geocoding, printing, places, geoprocessing, and other server-side operations. Use when computing directions or service areas, converting addresses to coordinates, exporting print-ready maps, searching for places, or invoking GP tools.
Configure FeatureTable for tabular data display and FormTemplate with input elements for feature editing forms. Use when adding spreadsheet-style data grids, building attribute edit forms, configuring form input types and validation, or surfacing related records in forms.
Style and render geographic data with renderers, symbols, and visual variables. Use for creating thematic maps, heatmaps, class breaks, unique values, labels, and 3D visualization.
Add specialized widgets including BuildingExplorer, FloorFilter, Track, Locate, HistogramRangeSlider, ScaleBar, Compass, NavigationToggle, and media viewers. Use for building exploration, indoor mapping, GPS tracking, and data histograms.
Build map user interfaces with ArcGIS widgets, Map Components, and Calcite Design System. Use for adding legends, layer lists, search, tables, time sliders, and custom UI layouts.
Work with temporal data using TimeSlider, TimeExtent, TimeInterval, and time-aware layers. Use for animating data over time, filtering by date ranges, and visualizing temporal patterns.
Work with ArcGIS Utility Networks for modeling and analyzing connected infrastructure including network tracing, associations visualization, and topology validation. Use for electric, gas, water, and telecom network analysis.
Configure SceneView environment settings including lighting, weather, shadows, atmosphere, backgrounds, and underground navigation. Use for realistic 3D visualizations.
Perform spatial analysis using analysis objects, REST services for routing/geocoding/geoprocessing, and feature reduction with clustering/binning. Use when running viewshed, line-of-sight, buffer, or geoprocessing analysis, and when clustering or binning dense point data for visualization.
Scaffold ArcGIS Maps SDK applications with TypeScript and Vite. Includes both a minimal quick-start setup and a production-ready configuration with ESLint, Prettier, git hooks, and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
Auto-generate renderers, calculate statistics, and create data-driven visualizations. Use for class breaks, unique values, heatmaps, dot density, relationship maps, and getting histogram/summary statistics.
Configure rich popup content with text, fields, media, charts, attachments, and related records. Use when customizing feature popups, adding charts or images to popups, templating popup titles and field formatting, or displaying related record data on click.
Work with raster and imagery data using ImageryLayer, ImageryTileLayer, pixel filtering, raster functions, multidimensional data, and oriented imagery. Use for satellite imagery, elevation data, and scientific raster datasets.
Optimize ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript applications for speed, memory, and bundle size. Use for improving map initialization, data loading, query efficiency, large dataset handling, and view rendering performance.
Add interactive map tools including swipe comparison, measurement, coordinate conversion, bookmarks, print, and routing. Use for layer comparison, distance/area measurement, and navigation services.
Embed lightweight, self-contained maps in web pages using the Embeddable Components package. Use for quick map embeds with minimal code and built-in UI controls.
Create 2D and 3D maps using ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript. Use for initializing maps, scenes, views, and navigation. Supports both Map Components (web components) and Core API approaches.
Edit features with the Editor component/widget, configure forms, manage subtypes, handle attachments, and work with branch versioning. Use when adding, updating, or deleting features, building edit forms, managing feature attachments, or working with versioned edits.
Create custom layer types with WebGL rendering using RenderNode, BaseLayerViewGL2D, BaseTileLayer, and BaseDynamicLayer. Use for advanced visualizations, custom data sources, and post-processing effects.
Add 3D layer types including SceneLayer, IntegratedMeshLayer, PointCloudLayer, VoxelLayer, and DimensionLayer to SceneView. Use for 3D buildings, LiDAR, volumetric data, glTF models, and 3D measurements.
Add AI-powered natural language assistants to maps using the ArcGIS AI Components package. Use for chat-based map interaction, data exploration, navigation, and custom agents.
Render interactive charts from ArcGIS layer data using the Charts Components package. Use for bar, line, pie, histogram, scatter, box plot, gauge, radar, and heat charts.
Manage portal content including saving WebMaps/WebScenes, bookmarks, slides, and portal items. Use for content persistence, WebMap/WebScene configuration, and navigation presets.