The Javascript starter kit has been released, and I have to say it’s pretty sweet. We have been working with some pre-release versions and I wanted to give a shout out to the main developers of the kit – Simon Biickert, Chris Macleod and Rachel O’Neil, all of ESRI Canada. As it stands the kit is a really slick starting point for a map-centric client side application. That said, if you want to extend it, you will need to get your Dojo kung-fu on. Now that it’s out we’ll start posting more examples on how to create/extend these widgets.
Speaking of extending, we have expanded on the kit so it supports some extra services as well as pulling the entire configuration from a service, based on a user’s identity.
Thus far we’ve used this for two map-centric web apps.
The first is for a “City GIS Services” group and basically allows public users to locate public records information and print maps. This site is nearly live – we are just polishing up the UI and building out the tile caches. I’ll post about it when it’s up and on the city’s servers so people can poke it.
The second is an emergency operations center dash-board application that is still in active development. This will have some interesting event management tools and a catalog of layers that can be added into the map as well
Both sites use a combination of the ArcGIS Server REST API, and custom json services. They are also both built on the ASP.NET MVC framework.
