Technical requirements

To follow through with all the exercises in this chapter and the rest of the book, you will need the following:

• Access to the command-line terminal on your OS.
• The latest current stable release of Julia installed. Install Julia on your computer by downloading the latest current stable release (v 1.8 or higher) from https://julialang.org/downloads/ or through the cross-platform juliaup tool (https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup).
• VS Code: Download it from https://code.visualstudio.com/, preferably v1.66 or higher.

All the code examples in this book have been run on a Windows machine. You may find subtle differences in output if you are using Linux/macOS. Where necessary, command variations for both machines have been specified.

The complete source code for this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Web-Development-with-Julia-and-Genie/tree/main/Chapter1.