Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

Creating modules and packages

Modules are used to create new namespaces. In Julia, creating a module is as simple as wrapping your code around a module block, like so:

module X # your codeend

In general, modules are created for the purpose of sharing and reuse, and the best way to achieve this is to organize code in Julia packages. A Julia package is a directory and file structure for maintaining module definitions, test scripts, documentation, and related data.

There is a standard directory structure and convention for Julia packages; however, it would be a hassle to manually configure a new program in the same structure every single time. Fortunately, there are some open source tools that automatically create the structure for a new package. ...