Julia Programming Projects

Setting up our project

The first thing we need to do is to set up a dedicated project. This is done by using Pkg. It is a very important step as it allows us to efficiently manage and version the packages on which our program depends.

For starters, we need a folder for our software. Create one—let's call it WebCrawler. I'll use Julia to make it, but you do it however you like:

julia> mkdir("WebCrawler") 
"WebCrawler" 
 
julia> cd("WebCrawler/") 

Now we can use Pkg to add the dependencies. When we start a new project, we need to initialise it. This is achieved with the following:

pkg> activate .

This tells Pkg that we want to manage dependencies in the current project as opposed to doing it globally. You will notice that the cursor has changed, ...