An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of rules and specifications used to communicate between two applications. In simple terms, an API allows one program to interact with another program. For exa
If you’re wondering, “What is an API?” you may not have heard the term before. Or perhaps you have a vague idea of what an API is or some understanding of what they do. In either case, we’re here to help: let’s dive in. Lire cet article en français. API definition API...
In this article, you will get an easy-to-understand explanation of what an API is and how you can use them to enhance your software applications or services. Table of contents What is an API? Advantages and benefits of APIs What is a WebAPI? What is REST? What is SOAP? Conclusion Circ...
It's essential for an API's producers and consumers to stay in sync as the API evolves—regardless of whether it is private or public. An effective API versioning strategy not only enables API producers to iterate in a way that minimizes the consumer-facing impact of breaking changes, but a...
REST API with Node.js is a web service architecture defining routes, handling HTTP methods, and interacting with data storage for interoperable APIs.
Learn more about Express.js, a web framework for building REST APIs, in our dedicated article. What is REST API and how does it work REST is short for Representational State Transfer, an architectural style for building web services that interact via an HTTP protocol. Its principles were formu...
Multidimensional imagery data is commonly used in the scientific community to store atmospheric, oceanographic, and earth science data. The information is stored as slices, where the service has a slice for each unique combination of dimension values and variable names. You can visualize and perform...
Support for two new basemap options in the API: Terrain and Dark Gray. The latter is a completely new base map on ArcGIS Online. Updates toHeatmapRendererforFeatureLayer The HeatmapRenderer class is no longer in beta. New constructor optioncolorStopsandsetColorStopsmethod to provide additional me...
>Number.isNaN({})false Unclear browser API is not the only problem in JavaScript related to NaN. As you also may know, NaN as an operand transforms any arithmetic operation result into NaN: Copy >1+NaNNaN Plus, NaN does not equal anything, even itself: ...
Editor widget:You can use snapping when creating or updating features. Currently, this is handled programmatically via the API by setting thesnappingOptionsproperty (and in an upcoming release it will be integrated into the Editor UI). We have updated the following samples to enable snapp...