diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 63a1f37..b1d06dd 100755
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "GenieBuilder"
 uuid = "c9453c14-af8a-11ec-351d-c7c9a2035d70"
 authors = ["Adrian Salceanu"]
-version = "0.19.2"
+version = "0.19.4"
 
 [deps]
 Base64 = "2a0f44e3-6c83-55bd-87e4-b1978d98bd5f"
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Genie = "5.31"
 GenieAutoReload = "2.2.4"
 GenieCache = "2"
 GenieCacheFileCache = "2"
-GenieDevTools = "2.11"
+GenieDevTools = "2.12"
 GeniePackageManager = "1.1.0"
 HTTP = "1"
 Inflector = "1"
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ RemoteREPL = "0.2"
 Scratch = "1.1"
 SearchLight = "2.10"
 SearchLightSQLite = "2.2.2"
-Stipple = "0.28.17"
+Stipple = "0.28.18"
 StippleUI = "0.23"
 TOML = "1"
 ZipFile = "0.10.1"
diff --git a/app/resources/applications/ApplicationsController.jl b/app/resources/applications/ApplicationsController.jl
index fff8ee0..ec52896 100755
--- a/app/resources/applications/ApplicationsController.jl
+++ b/app/resources/applications/ApplicationsController.jl
@@ -917,6 +917,28 @@ function save(app::Application)
   end
 end
 
+"""
+  delete(app)
+
+Deletes a file from an app
+"""
+function delete(app::Application)
+  if @isonline(app)
+    res = try
+      @async notify("started:delete", app.id) |> errormonitor
+
+      HTTP.request("GET", "$(apphost):$(app.port)$(GenieDevTools.defaultroute)/delete?path=$(params(:path, "."))")
+    catch ex
+      @error ex
+      @async notify("failed:delete", app.id, FAILSTATUS, ERROR_STATUS) |> errormonitor
+    end
+
+    @async notify("ended:delete", app.id) |> errormonitor
+
+    res |> json2json
+  end
+end
+
 """
   pages(app)
 
diff --git a/routes.jl b/routes.jl
index 8dca84a..c5f43fc 100755
--- a/routes.jl
+++ b/routes.jl
@@ -160,6 +160,11 @@ function register_routes()
     ApplicationsController.save(params(:appid) |> ApplicationsController.get)
   end
 
+  # returns the contents of a file from an app
+  route("$api_route$app_route/delete") do
+    ApplicationsController.delete(params(:appid) |> ApplicationsController.get)
+  end
+
   # returns the pages of an app
   route("$api_route$app_route/pages") do
     ApplicationsController.pages(params(:appid) |> ApplicationsController.get)