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Deploying a Custom Web Map App on Portal

BrandynFriedly

Hi All,

I'm new to ArcGIS Portal and the JS API, and am looking to start publishing in-house web apps for our organization. One thing that I'm struggling to find in documentation is how to create and deploy a completely custom web map application on Portal.

It looks to me from the documents that you have to use the Web App Builder and pick widgets/themes, but what if I'd like to just write a map app from scratch? Is there any reason why you can't just use Leaflet or OpenLayers.js to create a map that is served up by Portal and communicating with your ArcGIS Server? I guess I don't understand why I'd need ESRI/Leaflet and have Dojo baked into all my apps.

So my two questions are:

Can I just write the code for an app and deploy that to Portal, without using a Web App Builder?
Do I have to use ArcGIS.js?

Any suggestions or reading related to this would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Brandyn

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AdrianWelsh

Yes? I can't remember why I marked I had the same question but I must had needed this somewhere down the line. But yes, I want to [at some point] create my own widgets/themes.

MichaelLinden

Hi Adrian,

If i'm interpreting the question correctly, then yes I do. Are you wanting to create your own themes and widgets instead of using the out of the box web app builder widgets/themes?

AdrianWelsh

Michael,

Do you have a good reply for this? It looks like when this thread was created, I must have clicked "I have the same question" since I got a notice when you replied!

MichaelLinden

Hi, are you still wondering about this?

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