Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS

JavaScript Apps Made Easy

@gavinrehkemper

Show of Hands ....

What is It?

• Enables web apps to be created without programming
• Fully integrated with the ArcGIS platform
• Built with ArcGIS API for JavaScript and HTML 5 technology
• Responsive
• Extensible

Use it in two ways

1. Within ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS
2. Developer Edition

Part II: Developers

Best Practices for Custom Widgets and Themes

• Use Grunt to separate custom code from WAB in source control
• Use Yeoman to scaffold out boilerplate files
• Test your code!

All of these topics are covered in: Tools and Techniques for Web AppBuilder Development (Dev Summit 2015)

Sharing Widgets

• Sharing:
  • GeoNet Web AppBuilder Custom Widgets Community
  • github.com/Esri/arcgis-webappbuilder-widgets-themes
    • Pull requests welcome!
• Discover great widgets:
  • https://github.com/Esri/solutions-webappbuilder-widgets
  • Meta: Search (please submit your github links!)
  • More to come - stay tuned.

Resources

Here are some resources to get you started:

• Videos:
  • Intro: Overview (11/2014) - UC 2014 - DevSummit 2014
  • Customizing: UC 2014 - DevSummit 2014
• Documentaion:
  • Online: Developer Edition (Download Here!)
  • Bundled: http://localhost:3344/webappbuilder/help/
• GeoNet:
  • Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS Community

Thank You!

Find this presentation, with all links, on my GitHub page:
github.com/gavinr/presentations