"}],"short_description":"Join us March 10-13 in Palm Springs! Connect with the Esri technical team, explore in-depth sessions, and maximize your experience.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"We are excited to see you at the Esri Developer & Technology Summit 2026! Whether you’re joining us in-person or online, you’ll discover extensive technical sessions and inspiring demos. You’ll also have the opportunity to connect with the team behind ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript, Calcite Design System, and ArcGIS Arcade to get all your questions answered.<\/p>\n
Here’s a quick guide to help you navigate the conference and make the most of every session.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript web components are custom HTML elements (e.g, <arcgis-map>) that wrap SDK functionality into reusable UI building blocks. Built using web standards (Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, and HTML Templates), they work natively in modern browsers.<\/p>\n
This 4-part series takes developers from core concepts and web components, through framework integration with React and Vite, to building user experiences with Calcite Design System, and finally mastering theming, branding, and customization with design tokens and component slots, providing a complete path to building professional, production-ready web mapping applications.<\/p>\n
In the newly added final session of this four-part series, learn how to apply branding and styling to your apps using Calcite design tokens and ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript component tokens. Discover how to implement light and dark modes across components, and use component slots to integrate custom workflows and fine-tune your app\u2019s UI and UX.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
Discover how to transform spatial data into compelling visual stories with the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript. These sessions highlight practical approaches to 2D data visualization, creative and custom rendering techniques, powerful 3D mapping on the web, and dynamic time-based visualizations, including real-time and historical data, giving developers the tools to build engaging, expressive mapping experiences.<\/p>\n
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This newly added session shows how to create custom, expressive visualizations beyond built\u2011in renderers by combining dynamic multilayer symbology, renderers, and Arcade to build powerful spatial visuals. Prior experience with symbols, renderers, and Arcade is recommended.<\/li>\n
Explore how the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript powers immersive 3D visualization on the web\u2014covering 3D symbology, visual variables, key data layers, and best practices for creating interactive, thematic 3D experiences.<\/li>\n
This session teaches developers how to build AI assistants for web applications using the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript framework. You’ll learn essential terminology, work with built-in components and workflows, create custom workflows tailored to your application, and optimize the user experience by leveraging client-side browser and SDK capabilities.<\/li>\n
These sessions show developers how to get the most out of layers and data with the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript. You\u2019ll learn to optimize Feature Layer performance, run powerful client\u2011side queries, visualizations, and analytics directly in the browser, and work with modern formats like Parquet, GeoJSON, CSV, GeoTIFF, and OGC services. The lineup also highlights imagery workflows, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs, client\u2011side raster processing, and interactive data exploration with the Feature Table, equipping you to build high\u2011performance, data\u2011driven web apps at scale.<\/p>\n
This brand-new session shows developers how to get the best performance from Feature Layers in web apps by optimizing service configuration, caching, and client\u2011side queries, demonstrating practical techniques to efficiently work with feature data directly in the browser.<\/li>\n
These sessions deliver an end\u2011to\u2011end view of web app development\u2014from automating data ingestion and managing services to authoring web maps with cartographic best practices and building custom 2D and immersive 3D apps. Explore real-world app showcases, learn core web architecture and low code options, and engage directly with the SDK team in an open, audience driven Q&A.<\/p>\n
Whether you\u2019re new to web mapping or sharpening your engineering skills, this track has you covered. It starts with web basics and an intro to the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript, then dives into SDK internals, performance, and real\u2011world workflows using modern tools like Vite and Vitest\u2014ending with best practices for testing and building reliable Web GIS applications.<\/p>\n
Get started with the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript in this beginner friendly session. Learn setup basics, build simple 2D and 3D maps, and use tutorials and samples to start creating web mapping apps fast.<\/li>\n
In our first case study style session, see real examples of how Esri developers use Vite and Vitest to streamline builds, testing, and deployment for Web GIS apps.<\/li>\n
These sessions highlight core and advanced capabilities of the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript, including printing workflows, advanced labeling, graph\u2011powered applications with ArcGIS Knowledge, and browser\u2011based utility network workflows. Together, they offer practical guidance and real\u2011world insights to help developers build more powerful, scalable, and intelligent web mapping applications.<\/p>\n
In this new session see how intuitive components and the core API come together to deliver fast, accurate editing experiences\u2014from split and merge operations to curve editing, advanced drawing, related records, and batch updates. Discover the latest productivity boosters like preset templates and table-based workflows, then learn how to go beyond out\u2011of\u2011the\u2011box components to craft custom editing experiences tailored exactly to your app\u2019s needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
These sessions offer a comprehensive view of ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript\u2014highlighting the most impactful updates from the last year while providing an exclusive, in\u2011person look at the roadmap and strategic direction from the teams building the SDK.<\/p>\n
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Join us at the Palm Springs Convention Center for the 2026 Esri Developer and Technology Summit! If you haven’t already registered, there’s still time\u2014Register Now<\/em><\/a><\/strong> and we’ll see you there!<\/p>\n To explore more about the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript, visit our webpage<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. For detailed documentation, head over to the\u00a0Esri Developer site<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Also, stay in the loop with the latest in Developer technology by subscribing to the\u00a0Esri Developer Newsletter.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"\n