Genie.jl

🧞 The highly productive Julia web framework

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Julia data dashboards powered by Genie

Genie is a full-stack web framework that provides a streamlined and efficient workflow for developing modern web applications. It builds on Julia's strengths (high-level, high-performance, dynamic, JIT compiled), exposing a rich API and a powerful toolset for productive web development.

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Table of contents

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• Made With Genie
• Community Curated Resources
• Community Mentions
• Contributing
• Special Credits
• License

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Features

🛠Genie Router: Genie has a really powerful 💪 Router. Matching web requests to functions, extracting and setting up the request's variables and the execution environment, and invoking the response methods. Features include:

• Static, Dynamic, Named routing
• Routing parameters
• Linking routes
• Route management (Listing, Deleting, Modifying) support
• Routing methods (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, OPTIONS)
• and more ...

# Genie Hello World!
# As simple as Hello
using Genie
route("/hello") do
    "Welcome to Genie!"
end

# Powerful high-performance HTML view templates
using Genie.Renderer.Html
route("/html") do
    h1("Welcome to Genie!") |> html
end

# JSON rendering built in
using Genie.Renderer.Json
route("/json") do
    (:greeting => "Welcome to Genie!") |> json
end

# Start the app!
up(8888)

🔌 WebSocket: Genie provides a powerful workflow for client-server communication over websockets

julia> using Genie, Genie.Router

julia> channel("/foo/bar") do
         # process request
       end
[WS] /foo/bar => #1 | :foo_bar

📃 Templating: Built-in templates support for HTML, JSON, Markdown, JavaScript views.

🔐 Authentication: Easy to add database backed authentication for restricted area of a website.

julia> using Pkg

julia> Pkg.add("GenieAuthentication") # adding authentication plugin

julia> using GenieAuthentication

julia> GenieAuthentication.install(@__DIR__)

⏰ Tasks: Tasks allow you to perform various operations and hook them with crons jobs for automation

module S3DBTask
# ... hidden code

  """
  Downloads S3 files to local disk.
  Populate the database from CSV file
  """
  function runtask()
    mktempdir() do directory
      @info "Path of directory" directory
      # download record file
      download(RECORD_URL)

      # unzip file
      unzip(directory)

      # dump to database
      dbdump(directory)
    end
  end

# ... more hidden code
end

$ bin/runtask S3DBTask

📦 Plugin Ecosystem: Explore plugins built by the community such as GenieAuthentication, GenieAutoreload, GenieAuthorisation, and more

🗃️ ORM Support: Explore SearchLight a complete ORM solution for Genie, supporting Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and other adapters

function search(user_names, regions, startdate, enddate)
# ... hidden code

  where_filters = SQLWhereEntity[
      SQLWhereExpression("lower(user_name) IN ( $(repeat("?,", length(user_names))[1:end-1] ) )", user_names),
      SQLWhereExpression("date >= ? AND date <= ?", startdate, enddate)
  ]

  SearchLight.find(UserRecord, where_filters, order=["record.date"])

# ... more hidden code
end

• Database Migrations

module CreateTableRecord

import SearchLight.Migrations: create_table, column, primary_key, add_index, drop_table

function up()
  create_table(:record) do
    [
      primary_key()
      column(:user_uuid, :string, limit = 100)
      column(:user_name, :string, limit = 100)
      column(:status, :integer, limit = 4)
      column(:region, :string, limit = 20)
      column(:date_of_birth, :string, limit = 100)
    ]
  end

  add_index(:record, :user_uuid)
  add_index(:record, :user_name)
  add_index(:record, :region)
  add_index(:record, :date_of_birth)
end

function down()
  drop_table(:record)
end

end

• Model Validations

📝 More Genie features like:

• Files Uploads

route("/", method = POST) do
  if infilespayload(:yourfile)
    write(filespayload(:yourfile))

    stat(filename(filespayload(:yourfile)))
  else
    "No file uploaded"
  end
end

• Logging | Caching | Cookies and Sessions | Docker, Heroku, JuliaHub, etc Integrations | Genie Deploy
• To explore more features check Genie Documentation 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️

Made With Genie

• Packages/Libraries:

  • Stipple: Stipple is a reactive UI library for building interactive data applications in pure Julia

  • StippleUI: StippleUI is a library of reactive UI elements for Stipple.jl

  • StipplePlotly: StipplePlotly is a plotting library for Stipple.jl

  • StippleCharts: StippleCharts is yet another plotting/charting solution for Stipple.jl

• Demo Apps:

  • Julia package download app (data provided by Julia Lang)
  • German Credit visualization dashboard
  • Iris flowers dataset k-means clustering dashboard

Community Curated Resources

• Awesome Genie: A curated list of awesome things related to Julia's Web framework Genie.

Community Mentions

• 6 Julia Frameworks to Create Desktop GUI’s 🖥 and Web Apps by Logan Kilpatrick

• 12 Best Julia web frameworks by Olanrewaju Olakunle

• What are the best web frameworks for Julia programming language? by Morgane Alinaï

Contributing

Please contribute using GitHub Flow. Create a branch, add commits, and open a pull request.

Please read CONTRIBUTING for details on our CODE OF CONDUCT, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Special Credits

• The awesome Genie logo was designed by Alvaro Casanova

• Hoppscoth for readme structure template

• Genie uses a multitude of packages that have been kindly contributed by the Julia community

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

⭐ If you enjoy this project please consider starring the 🧞 Genie.jl GitHub repo. It will help us fund our open source projects.