Perldancer.org Website Review

Dancer is a simple but powerful web application framework for Perl. Dancer has been designed as a Perl web framework which is easy and intuitive to get to grips with - this is how easy it can be: Getting started with Dancer is easy, but it provides everything you need to write your web applications with ease! Dancer can be used with a wide variety of templating systems, including: If you're using a Perl web framework, you want the easy stuff taken care of for you, so you can write the interesting stuff. The same applies to database access - it should be simple and non-tedious. Dancer::Plugin::DBIC provides easy database access using DBIx::Clas*: Dancer::Plugin::Database manages your database connections, providing an augmented DBI database handle for you to use: Just enable one of the built-in seralizers and any references your routes return will automatically be serialised to JSON, XML, YAML - whatever you need. Use the Mutable serializer and the format can even be selected by the user making the request based on an Accept HTTP The above example simply returns a hashref from the route handler; the serializer takes care of turning it into the desired format (e.g. Session support is in-built, with a wide choice of session storage methods: There's a wide range of plugins available on CPAN to provide useful extra features to make writing your applications even eaiser, and support for a wide range of template engines, logging methods, session storage methods, serialisers.. Hacking around using @PerlDancer and enjoying it immensely. - de*pakg I believe so much in Dancer that I've given talks about it at local Perl Monger's groups, have taught a few people how to use it, and have even built my next generation web services framework at Plain Black on top of it. - JT Smith @ The Game Crafter Dancer is incredibly easy to learn, yet very powerful. Dancer is THE fastest way to develop web applications, hands down. - Rob Boerman Just do*nloaded and ran #Perl Dancer. Really curious about it. It looks amazing. - @juliofraire