Genie Builder Extension

Genie Builder is a free VSCode plugin that helps you build interactive GUIs for your Genie/Julia apps with no-code. Combine UI elements such as text, sliders, data tables and plots with a drag & drop interface. Create dashboards and data apps without worrying about the front-end.

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Installation and first run

Install Genie Builder by searching in the VSCode marketplace or by visiting this URL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GenieBuilder.geniebuilder

After installing the Genie Builder plugin you will see 2 new panes in the Explorer sidebar of VSCode:

Depending on your VSCode settings, they might be collapsed.

If that is the case, open them up.

If the "Genie Builder Server" pane indicates that the server is stopped, use the "Start Server" button to launch Genie Builder.

First run

Heads up! It is recommended to restart VSCode right after installing the plugin.

At the first run Genie Builder will take longer, as it will set up its Genie and Julia development environment.

Once the Genie Builder server has been successfully started, you can create your first app:

Congratulations! Follow the Quick Start Guide to see how to build apps with Genie Builder.

Quick Start Guide

Watch our video demo here

Troubleshooting

Genie Builder runs through a terminal process inside VSCode. So you can check the background jobs run by Genie Builder by looking at the VSCode terminal, at the "Genie Builder" process. If you see any errors in the terminal, please report the bug.

Reporting bugs and sending feature requests

Please report bugs and features requests on Github at https://github.com/GenieFramework/GenieBuilderIssues/issues and/or on the Genie Discord at https://discord.gg/9zyZbD6J7H

Requirements

Julia installed in $PATH. Our recommended way to install Julia (cross-platform) is with juliaup https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup
VSCode

Optional (but useful) VSCode plugins

Support

GenieBuilder should run on Julia v1.6 and up.

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