Script of the Day: Dancer

Dancer is one of the most advanced and used frameworks in the Perl market.

It surprised us to see the huge amount of Web frameworks for programming environments like PHP, Ruby, JavaScript (Node.js) and Python, while at the same time, a similarly popular language like Perl was seriously lacking in this department.

And indeed it took us some time to find a good selection of Web frameworks for Perl, the market seriously lacking in this department. From our list, we decided to feature Dancer due to its simple approach and extensive documentation.

While not the Jack of all trades, Dancer has solid support for most features you'd expect from a Web framework: template engine, plugins engine for extending functionality, minimalist syntax, PSGI support, few dependencies, easy database interactions, a sessions handler, AJAX support and logging utilities.

Dancer is currently being developed via a GitHub account and is available via CPAN.

Download Dancer from our Scripts section here.