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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 reviewed the Julia programming language in order to prepare ourselves for web development with Julia.

We worked with Julia in the REPL and with the VS Code editor, which is how we’ll build web apps in the rest of the book. Then, we looked at types, flow controls, functions, and methods, which you’ll need in any Julia app.

We followed that up with some useful Julia techniques in web development. We discussed modules and packages and illustrated them using the CSV and DataFrames packages.

Finally, we covered how the Julia runtime works and why Julia is a good fit for web development.

By now, you should be able to understand the underlying mechanisms of the code in future chapters and how to use Julia in your own projects.

In the next chapter, we’ll dive into what Julia’s standard library and JuliaWeb have to offer for building web apps.