Building, extending, or automating with Esri developer technology? Check out these resources.
Whether you’re building a mapping application with an ArcGIS Maps SDK, automating spatial workflows with the ArcGIS API for Python, integrating geocoding and routing into a mobile app, or deploying a full ArcGIS Enterprise environment, Esri has a dedicated set of resources to support you at every stage of development. If you are brand new to the Esri developer technology suite or if you have been using it for years, you are bound to encounter something new.
This guide is for developers who are asking questions like:
- Where do I find the right SDK or API for my project?
- How do I get sample code and working examples fast?
- Where can I get help when the docs don’t answer my question?
- How do I stay current on deprecations, new releases, and breaking changes?
- Where do I go to influence the product roadmap?
Below you’ll find the blogs, documentation sites, community forums, learning platforms, and code repositories most relevant to developers building location-enabled solutions. Jump to what interests you:
- Stay Connected
- Blogs
- Developer Support
- Esri Developer Events & Recordings
- Data Hubs
- Documentation & Learning
- Influence the Future of Developer Content
Stay Connected
The Esri Developer Newsletter is a quarterly email digest covering new releases, tutorials, upcoming events, and more. Curated specifically for developers, it is a great way to get a summarized highlight of what’s happening with Esri developer technology.
Follow Esri Developers on LinkedIn for releases, tutorials, community spotlights, and event news! This active and engaging account helps developers stay up to date on the latest.
On the Esri Developers YouTube channel you will find tutorials, best practices, livestreams, the latest developer sessions at Esri events, and more.
The Esri Video – Developers section has videos for ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript, ArcGIS API for Python, ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps, Game Engines, Calcite Design System, and more. Enjoy tutorials, product walkthroughs, and feature-focused sessions that go deeper than written documentation alone.
Blogs
The ArcGIS Blog is written by employees who have a passion for helping users get the most out of ArcGIS. From high level to in-depth content, you’ll find what’s in the latest releases, use case examples, annotated code samples, deprecation notices, event highlights, and more.
The Esri Software Engineering Blog offers behind-the-scenes stories and insights from Esri’s engineering teams. Esri engineers share their work, processes, and the architecture that makes ArcGIS work.
Developer Support
Esri Community – Developers is where users post questions, share solutions, and champion ideas. It’s a great resource for when documentation does not cover your specific use case. Esri staff and community MVPs actively participate in technical threads.
ArcGIS Ideas is woven throughout the Esri Community. There are product-specific idea channels where users submit feature requests and vote on ideas from the broader community. These exchanges have a documented track record of influencing the product roadmap.
The official Esri Technical Support portal offers public access to known bugs, FAQs, deprecation notes, and an integrated AI chatbot for rapid assistance. Users with active maintenance contracts can additionally log in to access troubleshooting tools, premium patches, and submit direct cases.
Esri Developer Events & Recordings
The Esri Developer and Technology Summit is Esri’s annual in-person event dedicated entirely to developers, held in Palm Springs, California. It features more than 120 hours of technical sessions covering SDKs, APIs, architecture patterns, and platform deep dives. Plus, an annual dodgeball competition is sure to entertain!
Esri European Developer & Technology Summit, also occurs in Frankfurt, Germany.
Session recordings can be found on Esri Video and browse proceedings from recent years. These events offer great opportunities to hear about the latest, network, and get your questions answered by the developers who built the technology.
Data Hubs
ArcGIS Hub’s open data search surfaces thousands of publicly available, ArcGIS-ready datasets published by governments, agencies, and organizations worldwide. They are searchable by topic, geography, and format.
For curated, authoritative content including basemaps, imagery, demographic data, and real-time feeds, the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is Esri’s continuously maintained library of global geographic information, available directly within the platform and through the APIs.
Documentation & Learning
Esri Developer Documentation is your primary destination! It centralizes tutorials for Esri’s comprehensive suite of developer technology. It is structured to serve developers at all levels, from a first app to a complex multi-service integration tutorial for Esri’s comprehensive suite of developer technology. It is structured to serve developers at all levels, from a first app to a complex multi-service integration.
Esri Academy is a learning platform offering instructor-led courses, self-paced e-learning, live training seminars, professional certifications, and more. The Learning Plans feature lets you build structured training paths, share them with colleagues, and track teammates’ progress. It is a practical tool for onboarding new developers to the ArcGIS ecosystem, not just for individual skill development.
The ArcGIS Architecture Center is built for sysadmins and DevOps engineers responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining ArcGIS environments. It publishes reference architectures, infrastructure guidance, and deployment patterns for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid configurations. Whether you’re sizing infrastructure for ArcGIS Enterprise, planning a high-availability deployment, or evaluating architecture options for a new build, this is the technical resource designed for that work.
The ArcGIS Trust Center is where Esri publishes security best practices, vulnerability remediation guidance, AI governance documentation, and compliance framework information. It’s also a direct channel for customers and researchers to engage with Esri’s product security teams.
Esri’s GitHub organization is where open-source samples, utilities, solutions, and tooling are published and maintained across the ArcGIS platform. Developers can also find community-contributed forks, raise issues directly with Esri teams, and explore how Esri builds and packages open-source components.
Esri maintains a public Postman workspace where developers can explore ready-to-run collections of ArcGIS REST API calls covering location services, authentication flows, and AI tooling including MCP integrations. It’s a practical way to test API behavior, understand request and response structures, and prototype integrations without writing any setup code first. If you’re evaluating an ArcGIS service or troubleshooting an API call, the Postman workspace is one of the fastest ways to get a working example in front of you.
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