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Web Development with Julia and Genie

By : Ivo Balbaert, Adrian Salceanu
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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

Part 2: Using the Genie Rapid Web Development Framework

Here, we explore in depth the Genie web framework, continuing our to-do app example. First, we build a complete web app based on the MVC pattern, including unit testing. Then, we enhance this by creating a REST API to expose the data from our application, while writing specific tests and documenting the API.

Deploying our app in a production environment is the next big step. We discuss how we can configure different app environments, how we can use Git and GitHub to establish continuous integration, and how we can improve performance by using PackageCompiler. Then, we learn how to deploy our app in a Docker container and on the Heroku cloud platform.

Lastly, we build a variant of our to-do app in the form of an interactive dashboard that lets us interrogate our data with charts and filters. We also learn how to create mock data for larger-scale testing.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

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