Migrating AMD modules to ES Modules and TypeScript is not a small task for a large codebase. Rene Rubalcava from the ArcGIS team shares their experience of upgrading thousands of lines of code and publishing raw ESM without stopping feature work. We also touch on how some of our “new” build tools are coming full circle with the past.

Speakers

Sam Menza on Twitter
Anthony Ciccarello on Twitter
Torrey Rice on Twitter

Guests

Rene Rubalcava is a SoftWhere Engineer at Esri that strives to help developers make great applications so their users can do awesome work. He learned to write code on the mean streets of Los Angeles County local government, in the land of Flash, Java, VB, and Excel Macros.

• https://odoe.net/
• Twitter
• Twitch

Show Notes

Below are links to the resources and topics mentioned during this episode.

• TypeScript 4.2 release
• TalkScript on Spotify
• learn-dojo.com
• Dojo Toolkit dojo/topic (pub/sub)
• Dojo middleware
• ArcGIS API
• USA COVID-19 trends map
• ArcGIS workers
• ArcGIS ES modules
• Snowpack and Vite tutorials (odoe.net)
• ES module import-maps
• ArcGIS Blog