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Web Development in Julia

Basic Packages

HTTP.jl

This seems to be one of the most fundamental web libraries in Julia.

Frameworks

Bukdu.jl

• Apparently influenced by the Phoenix Framework
• It’s very sparsely documented though, I don’t know exactly how to do something about this.

Merly.jl

• Merly seems to be much more well documented, and it also has a benchmark in the general web benchmarker that makes it much faster than {RestRServe}, obviously going to be faster than {shiny} as well.
• Seems that this is the best framework to choose if I need to put up a microservice or web service!
• One snag is that its middleware implementation seems to be quite clunky.

Mux.jl

• It’s a control flow library and is also the one supported by JuliaWeb, so I’m a little more hopeful on this one.
• The README.md is excellent at explaining the concepts.
• I might end up using this as the design seems the most well thought out.
• It has WebSockets support.