With Dojo gone, some questions on 4.25 and ES modules

[DanielWebb]

I’ve been playing with ES Modules in the ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.25. Dojo is gone, so I have some questions.

1. Is there an equivalent for “dojo/text!./somehtml.html”?
2. Is there an equivalent for dojoConfig = {cacheBust: true}? It’s very helpful to always get fresh resources so that users get code changes right away without needing to clear their cache. Is there a way to cacheBust ES modules?
3. Is there an equivalent for “connect.disconnect”? I used this to disconnect any tools that needed to click the map. Is there a way in 4.25 to disconnect the view.hitTest?

The more I work with ES modules, I may have more questions. But these are three so far.

Thanks!

[AndyGup · Accepted solution]

Hi @DanielWebb, good questions, they related to both the AMD and ES modules:

1. No. You can use esri/request or use native fetch directly to load HTML as a string into your app

2. This can be handled through industry-standard patterns such as using Etags. You can also set the cacheBust option in esri/request, but this is a different implementation from dojo, instead of adding a param, it tells fetch to make a conditional request. If you always want to cacheBust, then you can use a requestInterceptor with the url set to null.

3.You can remove event listeners natively. If you are using an "on" listener, you can remove those using the APIs remove() method.

[DanielWebb]

Thanks Andy! This is old but it’s been a big learning curve for me—including Webpack bundling—and I’m just now getting a handle on some of this (as I get time apart from normal daily work).

The native fetch works well. Thanks for that.

I couldn’t figure out Etags or the esri/request stuff. But the cacheBust seemed to be fixed with Webpack bundling. I have the output set to '[name].[contenthash].bundle.js' which looks like it gives a new alphanumeric id to the file name. That should force a cachebust.

The ‘remove’ also seems to work for onclick listening.

Thanks again for the directions to look.