The highly productive Julia web framework

Genie is a full-stack MVC web framework that promotes a streamlined and efficient workflow for developing modern web applications.

Getting Started with Genie

1. Create a New App

              
julia> Pkg.clone("https://github.com/essenciary/Genie.jl") # Get Genie
julia> using Genie # Bring Genie into scope

julia> Genie.REPL.new_app("your_cool_new_app") # Genie will create a new app called "your_cool_new_app" and start an interactive session.

2. Say Hello

              
# append this to /your_cool_new_app/config/routes.jl
route("/hello") do
  "Hello - Welcome to Genie!"
end

3. Ready!

              
genie> AppServer.startup()
Listening on 0.0.0.0:8000...

# Visit http://localhost:8000/hello in your favorite browser

Complete toolset for productive web development

SearchLight ORM

Build DB agnostic apps with Genie's powerful and expressive ORM.

Flax View Templates

Familiar HTML based, flexible and fast (compiled fast!) view templates.

Web Server

Fast, flexible, non-blocking HTTP and WebSockets server included.

REST APIs

Expose your model data with succint and expressive JSON data templates.

Channels

Real-time apps over WebSockets using the familiar MVC architecture.

Authentication

Easily add authentication to a whole app. Or to sensitive features only.

Caching

Cache enable expensive operations with just one line of code using cache blocks.

Authorization

Simple and powerful user authorization based on flexible ACLs.

Logging

Powerful logging = priceless insight into your app's inner workings.

Database migrations

Stress-free DB versioning in pure SQL with Genie's migrations tools.

Model validations

Guaranteed data integrity with pure Julia model validations.

Command line apps

Complete toolset for creating fully featured command line utilities.

Asset pipeline

Fully integrated asset management with Yarn and Webpack.

Powerful routing

With optional strong typed params, lambdas or full Controller dispatch.

Generators

Get up and running in minutes with Genie's powerful file generators.

Configurable

Control your app via dev, test and production predefined environments.

The docs

Check out the guides, try the sample apps or study the API docs.

Read the docs

Contribute

Fork Genie on GitHub and add your favorite new features or squash some bugs.

Visit GitHub page

Get in touch

Come say "Hi!" -- join Genie's community on Gitter.

Go to Gitter