Julia Programming Projects

Checking our code

Let's make sure that, after this refactoring, our code still works as expected. Julia comes out of the box with unit-testing capabilities, and we'll look at these in Chapter 11, Creating Julia Packages. For now, we'll do it the old-fashioned way, by manually running the code and inspecting the output.

We'll add a new file inside the sixdegrees/ folder, called six_degrees.jl. Looking at its name, you can guess that it will be a plain Julia file and not a module. We'll use it to orchestrate the loading of our game:

using Pkg 
pkg"activate ." 
 
include("Wikipedia.jl") 
using .Wikipedia 
 
fetchrandom() |> articlelinks |> display 

The code is straightforward and minimalistic—we use Pkg to activate the current project. Then, we include ...