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Web Development with Julia and Genie

You're reading from   Web Development with Julia and Genie A hands-on guide to high-performance server-side web development with the Julia programming language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811132
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Developing Web Apps with Julia
2. Chapter 1: Julia Programming Overview FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Using Julia Standard Web Packages 4. Chapter 3: Applying Julia in Various Use Cases on the Web 5. Part 2: Using the Genie Rapid Web Development Framework
6. Chapter 4: Building an MVC ToDo App 7. Chapter 5: Adding a REST API 8. Chapter 6: Deploying Genie Apps in Production 9. Chapter 7: Adding Authentication to Our App 10. Chapter 8: Developing Interactive Data Dashboards with Genie 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Franklin to build static websites in Julia

The Franklin package (see https://franklinjl.org/) provides a very nice framework for generating static websites. It is especially suitable for all kinds of technical blogging. It can render LaTeX and KaTeX math expressions and embed Julia code with live evaluation. The package is easy to use, light, and well documented. To get started with using Franklin, perform the following steps:

  1. Go into REPL pkg mode with ] and type in add Franklin.
  2. Then, in normal REPL mode, type in using Franklin.
  3. When generating a new website, first, you have to choose the template on which your website will be based. Navigate to https://tlienart.github.io/FranklinTemplates.jl/ and choose one. All of the themes are written in CommonMark and can be adapted according to your needs. The generation phase converts the Markdown into HTML.

Next, open the REPL with julia –project and issue the newsite command along with a name for your...

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