GenieFramework/Genie.jl

Genie.jl is the backbone of the Genie Framework, which 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.

Genie Framework is composed of four main components:

• Genie.jl: the server backend, providing features for routing, templating, authentication, and much more.
• Stipple.jl: a package for building reactive UIs with a simple and powerful low-code API in pure Julia.
• Genie Builder: a VSCode plugin for building UIs visually in a drag-and-drop editor.
• SearchLight.jl: a complete ORM solution, enabling easy database integration without writing SQL queries.

To learn more about Genie, visit the documentation, and the app gallery.

If you need help with anything, you can find us on Discord.

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• Contributing
• Special Credits
• License

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What's New since Genie 6.0

• 🔌 HTTP.jl v2 — Genie's networking core moved to the modern HTTP.jl v2.
• 📦 JSON.jl — switched the JSON backend from JSON3 to JSON.jl.
• ⚡ Flexible concurrency — request handling can now run distributed, threaded, or sequential, your choice.
• 🍪 More reliable cookies & CORS — several rounds of fixes to cookie handling and cross-origin headers, including dropped cookies on cross-origin requests and reading cookies back off a response.
• 🗄 Smarter asset caching — opt in to browser caching for assets and static files with a single environment variables "GENIE_ASSETS_CACHE_MAXAGE" and "GENIE_STATIC_CACHE_MAXAGE", refreshable at runtime with no restart
• add_fileroute(): support kwargs chache_controland headers, new method to overwrite cache settings for single routes/files.
• 🧪 Faster, more isolated tests — the test suite moved to TestItems.jl.

Features of Genie.jl

🛠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 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️

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.