Simply put, ArcGIS Server allows you to publish your data (i.e. shapefiles, tables, feature classes) as a service so that is accessible through a URL. The JavaScript API uses these URLs so that it can consume and map the data.
Do you have a few references you have consulted so that people don't have to provide the obvious links to the help topics and the GeoNet Space on ArcGIS Server? I suspect that you need more indepth information than is provided in those links.
I have read the resources and help topics related to it but I really couldn't find as to what ArcGIS Server does. I am trying to use the JavaScript API but what does ArcGIS Server have to do with it.
Simply put, ArcGIS Server allows you to publish your data (i.e. shapefiles, tables, feature classes) as a service so that is accessible through a URL. The JavaScript API uses these URLs so that it can consume and map the data.
thank you. How does one actually use those URL's and create Web Apps through the developers.esri website? I mean there is a sandbox for coding in JavaScript and also IDE's but how does one actually create a web map app to be viewed on a website?
