I’m very excited to share that we’ve just released Genie Builder (beta), a free VSCode plugin built on top of Genie Framework that helps you build interactive web GUIs for your Genie/Julia apps without writing code. With Genie Builder, you can just drag & drop UI elements such as text, sliders, data tables, and plots to create data apps in minutes without worrying about the front-end code.
Don’t miss our JuliaCon talk on July 29 for a more detailed tutorial.
If you find Genie Builder useful, you can join our Discord for support, feedback, and feature requests. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts and suggestions!
I am curious how the experience compares with Dash and Makie GUIs, though I know next to nothing about any of them. Very excited for your JuliaCon talk!
If I understand your question correctly, the fundamental difference is that with GenieBuilder you create the GUI visually, by dragging and dropping UI elements onto the page – while with Dash and Makie you have to build your GUI by writing code.
Sorry, I don’t understand what you’re trying to do.
I assume what you want is the actual no-code app builder, which is distributed as a VSCode plugin that you should install from the marketplace, by using the links shared in the actual post?
Hi there
Yep I want to try out GenieBuilder and got the error. I followed the instructions to add manually when the ext install didn’t work and that’s where I am now.
followed instructions ran
ext install GenieBuilder.geniebuilder
got the extentions installed and hit start on GENIE BUILDER SERVER
got this in Repl
dave@deepthought:~/.vscode/extensions/geniebuilder.geniebuilder-0.1.8/scripts$ julia rungb.jl
_____ _ _____ _ _ _
| __|___ ___|_|___ | __ |_ _|_| |_| |___ ___
| | | -_| | | -_| | __ -| | | | | . | -_| _|
|_____|___|_|_|_|___| |_____|___|_|_|___|___|_|
LOADING -- PLEASE WAIT.
Activating project at `~/.julia/geniebuilder`
Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/General.toml`
┌ Warning: The active manifest file at `/home/dave/.julia/geniebuilder/Manifest.toml` has an old format that is being maintained.
│ To update to the new format run `Pkg.upgrade_manifest()` which will upgrade the format without re-resolving.
└ @ Pkg.Types /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Pkg/src/manifest.jl:287
No Changes to `~/.julia/geniebuilder/Project.toml`
No Changes to `~/.julia/geniebuilder/Manifest.toml`
ERROR: ArgumentError: Package GenieBuilder not found in current path:
- Run `import Pkg; Pkg.add("GenieBuilder")` to install the GenieBuilder package.
Stacktrace:
[1] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
@ Base ./loading.jl:967
ERROR: LoadError: failed process: Process(`julia --startup-file=no --depwarn=no -e '
using Pkg;
Pkg.activate(".");
Pkg.update();
using GenieBuilder;
GenieBuilder.postinstall();'`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]
Stacktrace:
[1] pipeline_error
@ ./process.jl:531 [inlined]
[2] run(::Cmd; wait::Bool)
@ Base ./process.jl:446
[3] run
@ ./process.jl:444 [inlined]
[4] |>
@ ./operators.jl:966 [inlined]
[5] installgb()
@ Main.RunGB ~/.vscode/extensions/geniebuilder.geniebuilder-0.1.8/scripts/rungb.jl:32
[6] startgb()
@ Main.RunGB ~/.vscode/extensions/geniebuilder.geniebuilder-0.1.8/scripts/rungb.jl:57
[7] top-level scope
@ ~/.vscode/extensions/geniebuilder.geniebuilder-0.1.8/scripts/rungb.jl:72
in expression starting at /home/dave/.vscode/extensions/geniebuilder.geniebuilder-0.1.8/scripts/rungb.jl:72
dave@deepthought:~/.vscode/extensions/geniebuilder.geniebuilder-0.1.8/scripts$
followed intructions to add GenieBuilder Where did I go wrong?
I try to make some test and I found that mechanics is low-documented, so I think primary feature request is more minimal working examples for buttons, file upload, ets… and documentation about views html design.
some things is unclear:
what @reactive exactly do? and how to use it?
on(model.message) do message
model.isprocessing = true
model.message[] = "Hello to you too!"
model.isprocessing = false
end
What is model.message[] and what is model.message and so on…
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