Interacting with InDesign Server without SOAP

Hi,
The documentation in IDS SDK tells that one can interact using Javascript with IDS without using SOAP.
How can one interact using Javascript and without SOAP?
I know that with Extendscript one can write scripts and execute it directly.
But with a simple jsx file only how do I interact with server?

Hi,
On Windows you can start the InDesignServer via the console. Then start the Extendscript Toolkit and choose "InDesignServer".

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