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Developing with Arches
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Arches is very flexible and customizable. This section provides guidance on how to use APIs to integrate Arches with other information systems, enhance accessibility, build custom extensions, and modify Arches to deploy custom features beyond the capabilities of standard (uncustomized, core) Arches.

If you are considering software development to customize Arches, please read the :ref:`Arches Customization Considerations` for an introduction about good practices to help make customizations easier to develop, sustain, and maintain.

.. toctree::
    :caption: Getting Started
    :maxdepth: 2

    getting-started/customization-considerations
    getting-started/creating-a-development-environment
    getting-started/arches-and-elasticsearch

.. toctree::
    :caption: Reference Guide
    :maxdepth: 2

    reference/api
    reference/command-line-reference
    reference/data-model
    reference/import-export

.. toctree::
    :caption: Extending Arches
    :maxdepth: 2

    extending/creating-apps
    extending/creating-extensions
    extending/creating-new-map-layers
    extending/create-html-export-templates

.. toctree::
    :caption: Advanced
    :maxdepth: 2

    advanced/accessibility
    advanced/integrating-arches-with-arcgis
    advanced/localizing-arches
    advanced/managing-and-hosting-iiif
    advanced/task-management
    advanced/two-factor-authentication
    advanced/using-arches-offline

.. toctree::
    :caption: Legacy Support
    :maxdepth: 2

    migrating-from-v3/index