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Web Development with Julia and Genie

By : Ivo Balbaert, Adrian Salceanu
Book Image

Web Development with Julia and Genie

By: Ivo Balbaert, Adrian Salceanu

Overview of this book

Julia’s high-performance and scalability characteristics and its extensive number of packages for visualizing data make it an excellent fit for developing web apps, web services, and web dashboards. The two parts of this book provide complete coverage to build your skills in web development. First, you'll refresh your knowledge of the main concepts in Julia that will further be used in web development. Then, you’ll use Julia’s standard web packages and examine how the building blocks of the web such as TCP-IP, web sockets, HTTP protocol, and so on are implemented in Julia’s standard library. Each topic is discussed and developed into code that you can apply in new projects, from static websites to dashboards. You’ll also understand how to choose the right Julia framework for a project. The second part of the book talks about the Genie framework. You’ll learn how to build a traditional to do app following the MVC design pattern. Next, you’ll add a REST API to this project, including testing and documentation. Later, you’ll explore the various ways of deploying an app in production, including authentication functionality. Finally, you’ll work on an interactive data dashboard, making various chart types and filters. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build interactive web solutions on a large scale with a Julia-based web framework.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
1
Part 1: Developing Web Apps with Julia
5
Part 2: Using the Genie Rapid Web Development Framework

Summary

In this chapter, we used the GenieFramework tool to build a dashboard To-Do application. First, we added some new to-do fields, which lend themselves to filtering and plotting. Then, we learned how to generate random data through a dedicated migration.

We applied the reactive web UI techniques from the low-code GenieFramework to build our dashboard view, complete with filters, bar charts, and pie charts.

We finished up by updating our views for the new fields, and by adding pagination, navigation, and redirection after login.

This concludes our overall survey of Julia for the web and the Genie web framework and technologies. We hope you’ve enjoyed this trip through Julia web-land as much as we did, and urge you to try it out for your next project!