What's Coming in the ArcGIS API 4.2 for JavaScript

JenniferJacob — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 01:04:21 GMT

Web developers! Here’s a sneak peek from the Esri development team at a few highlights of the new JavaScript API release coming your way soon:

Vector Tile Layers Now in 3D!

Style Esri basemaps: Create unique styles for Esri’s vector tile basemaps tailored to your app and end user’s needs.

Your data, your vector tile layers: Create and publish your own vector tile layers using ArcGIS Pro.

Web Mercator and WGS84: Visualize vector tile layers in either Web Mercator or WGS84 for 3D globes, and any projection for 2D maps.

Smart Mapping in 3D

Explore your data in ArcGIS Online: In the next ArcGIS Online update, you will be able to use the Scene Viewer to explore color and size options for visualizing your data.

Continuous size and color: Let your data drive color and size of points in 3D space.

Simplify your code: Load your styled data into your app using a WebScene with only a few lines of code. Make updates to your WebScene from within your app and re-save it. You can even create one from scratch!

Widgets, widgets, widgets

Introducing the widget development pattern: Learn how to build your own widget using the API’s view-model design. You can also customize the view of one of the API’s widgets.

New API widgets: The LayerList and Print widgets will be included in the 4.2 release.

These are just a few of the exciting new capabilities you can expect when the 4.2 release of the JavaScript API is officially announced in the coming weeks.

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Re: What's Coming in the ArcGIS API 4.2 for JavaScript

AdamRoestenburg — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 05:59:15 GMT

Exciting! Thanks Jennifer. I have had a look at the functionality matrix, for 2 widgets in particular. Draw and Print... It simply says "Coming Soon". Can you elaborate? This is pretty important to encourage interaction.

Re: What's Coming in the ArcGIS API 4.2 for JavaScript

JuliePowell — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 20:05:54 GMT

Hi Adam, the print widget will be included in this release as well (and has been redesigned for 4.x; it's pretty nice!). The draw widget will be part of the summer release at the earliest.

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