Key features

ArcGIS REST JS is designed to:

• Simplify making requests to ArcGIS location services and ArcGIS Enterprise services to perform operations such as data queries, geocoding, routing, demographic queries, content management, and administration tasks.
• Make it easier to implement and support different authentication patterns.
• Be usable in a wide variety of scenarios out-of-the-box, including via a CDN, in NodeJS and popular module bundlers like: webpack, Rollup, and Parcel.
• Have a minimal size footprint, including being easy to tree-shake to reduce size.
• Have consistant, reliable ways to process and handle errors.
• Work in modern browsers and Node JS.

ArcGIS REST JS divides functionality into the following packages:

• @esri/arcgis-rest-request: Core package containing request/response processing, authentication helpers and error handling.
• @esri/arcgis-rest-feature-service: Provides functions to query and edit features in hosted feature layers.
• @esri/arcgis-rest-geocoding: A geocoding wrapper for ArcGIS REST JS.
• @esri/arcgis-rest-routing: A routing and directions wrapper for ArcGIS REST JS.
• @esri/arcgis-rest-demographics: To access the GeoEnrichment service.
• @esri/arcgis-rest-portal: To access and manage users, group and content an ArcGIS Portal.