The ArcGIS JavaScript API provides a rich set of tools to build mobile ArcGIS apps. As we will discuss later, it is built on the Dojo framework. The API can be used both for mobile and desktop web application development. In this chapter, we will introduce Dojo and other frameworks, APIs, and libraries relevant to ArcGIS JavaScript development.
Note
Esri describes the ArcGIS API for JavaScript at https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/jshelp/ as follows:
"The ArcGIS API for JavaScript is a lightweight way to embed maps and tasks in web applications. You can get these maps from ArcGIS Online, your own ArcGIS Server or others' servers."
The API documents can be found at the website.