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Getting Started With Toolips 0.3.5 — Overpowered Web-Development For Julia

Toolips beta III is an insanely capable and versatile web-development framework. Please let me show you why?

Emma Boudreau
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40 min readJan 11, 2025

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A couple of years ago, I set out to develop a rather complicated web-based project — the Olive notebook editor. In this project, I needed to create a single-page, full-stack web-application that could easily respond to a number of different inputs. I tried several web-development frameworks, and even tried modifying frameworks to fill this role, however none of these projects could do quite what I wanted to do. Even Pluto , the greatest comparison to Olive in the Julia ecosystem, is about half JavaScript. I wanted my editor to be written in pure Julia, as a crucial selling point of this project is that new cells can easily be added to it. My solution to this problem was finally creating my own web-development framework, Toolips .

In Toolips , I did not want to build a proprietary server that works for Olive exclusively, nor did I want to make a framework that only makes fullstack apps. If I am going to build a web-development framework, I am going to build a web-development framework. Toolips is a web-development built with an extensible design pattern at every level. Toolips

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Emma Boudreau
Emma Boudreau

Written by Emma Boudreau

i am a computer nerd. I love art, programming, and hiking. https://github.com/emmaccode

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