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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

Deploying Genie apps with Git and Docker containers

Now that we have confirmed that our application runs correctly in a Docker container, we can deploy our application on any of the multitude of web hosting services that support Docker container deployments. By using Docker containers, we can be sure that the exact setup described in the Dockerfile and tested on our machine will be run and configured on the hosting service.

AWS EC2 hosting

AWS is the most popular hosting platform at the moment so let’s see how to deploy our Genie app there. AWS has a multitude of services (over 100) providing a huge array of possible deployment setups. Most of the AWS configurations are quite complex and go beyond the scope of this chapter, with large books and month-long certification programs being dedicated to teaching AWS usage. We’ll go with one of the simplest and most straightforward ways to get the application up and running.

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