Summary
In this chapter, we reviewed the Julia programming language in order to prepare ourselves for web development with Julia.
We worked with Julia in the REPL and with the VS Code editor, which is how we’ll build web apps in the rest of the book. Then, we looked at types, flow controls, functions, and methods, which you’ll need in any Julia app.
We followed that up with some useful Julia techniques in web development. We discussed modules and packages and illustrated them using the CSV and DataFrames packages.
Finally, we covered how the Julia runtime works and why Julia is a good fit for web development.
By now, you should be able to understand the underlying mechanisms of the code in future chapters and how to use Julia in your own projects.
In the next chapter, we’ll dive into what Julia’s standard library and JuliaWeb have to offer for building web apps.
