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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

Technical requirements

We will need to install Genie before we start working through the examples in this chapter. As you already know, installing this package is a breeze.

Start Julia, go into package mode with ], and then type in add Genie.

The versions of Julia and the packages used in this chapter are Julia 1.8, Genie v5.11, SearchLight v2.10, and SearchLightSQLite v2.2. Make sure you use the same or a higher version. You can update a lower version by running pkg> update Genie. You can verify the version used by the app by executing pkg> status and identifying the entry corresponding to the Genie package.

The source code for this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Web-Development-with-Julia-and-Genie/tree/main/Chapter4.