Workflow Tips

As already elaborated in The Julia REPL, Julia’s REPL provides rich functionality that facilitates an efficient interactive workflow. Here are some tips that might further enhance your experience at the command line.

The most basic Julia workflows involve using a text editor in conjunction with the command line. A common pattern includes the following elements:

• Put code under development in a temporary module. Create a file, say Tmp.jl, and include within it

• Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Explore ideas at the command prompt. Save good ideas in tst.jl.

Simplify initialization

If you further add the following to your file

then calling julia from that directory will run the initialization code without the additional command line argument.

Browser-based workflow

It is also possible to interact with a Julia REPL in the browser via . See the package home for details.