# Make a webapp framework/ecosystem as awesome as R's Shiny: a challenge to Julia's community

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-a-webapp-framework-ecosystem-as-awesome-as-rs-shiny-a-challenge-to-julias-community/9533>\
**Category:** Web Stack\
**Tags:** visualization, webapps\
**Created:** [March 6, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-a-webapp-framework-ecosystem-as-awesome-as-rs-shiny-a-challenge-to-julias-community/9533 "2018-03-06T11:45:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![joshualeond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joshualeond/32/230_2.png) [@joshualeond](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joshualeond)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-a-webapp-framework-ecosystem-as-awesome-as-rs-shiny-a-challenge-to-julias-community/9533/11 "2018-03-06T21:32:51Z")

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There was a lengthy discussion on this several months ago:

> [@Is anyone developing a SPA package like R/Shiny or Python/Dash?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-anyone-developing-a-spa-package-like-r-shiny-or-python-dash/5733):
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> I’m working on a simple climate model that I would like to put online with some nice and friendly widgets. It would be a perfect fit for a Single Page Application, especially if Julia had a package that made this as simple as [Shiny](https://shiny.rstudio.com/) for R or [Dash](https://plot.ly/products/dash/) for Python. I’m a complete webapp newbie, so doing it [manually](http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/building-web-app-julia-differentialequations-jl-online/) like @ChrisRackauckas isn’t on the table, at least not yet. Is anyone already working on something similar for Julia? (Shoutout to @essenciary, developer of Genie.jl: you mentioned on Gitter…

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