Genie.jl is the backbone of Genie Framework: the complete solution for developing modern full-stack web applications in Julia.
It includes key features like the web server, the flexible templating engine with support for HTML, JSON, Markdown, and Julia views, caching, (encrypted) cookies and sessions, forms handling, and the powerful router.
Genie.jl uses the familiar MVC architecture, follows industry best practices, and comes with lots of useful code generators
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Router – powerful router. Matching web requests to functions, extracting and setting up the request’s variables and the execution environment, and invoking the response methods
- Static, Dyanmic, Named routing.
- Routing parameters.
- Linking routes.
- Route management (Listing, Deleting, Modifying) support.
- Routing methods (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, OPTIONS).
- WebSocket – provides a powerful workflow for client-server communication over websockets.
- Templating – builtin templating solution for HTML, JSON, Markdown, JavaScript views.
- Authentication – easy to add database backed authentication for restricted area of a website.
- Tasks – perform various operations and hook them with crons jobs for automation.
- Plugin ecosystem.
- ORM support – explore SearchLight a complete ORM solution for Genie, supporting Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and other adapters.
Website: genieframework.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Adrian Salceanu and Genie.jl Contributors
License: MIT License
Genie Framework is written in Julia. Learn Julia with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Julia Web Frameworks | |
|---|---|
| Genie | Complete solution for developing modern full-stack web applications |
| JuMP | Domain-specific modeling language for mathematical optimization |
| Bukdu | Web development framework that seeks inspiration from the Phoenix framework |
| Blink.jl | Julia wrapper around Electron |
| Merly | Microframework for declaring routes and handling requests |
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