Dancer (software)

For actual Dancing, see Dancer.

Original author(s)	Alexis Sukrieh
Stable release	1.3072 / August 23, 2011; 2 months ago (2011-08-23)
Written in	Perl
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Web application framework
License	GPL and PAL
Website	perldancer.org

Dancer is an open source micro web application framework written in Perl inspired by Ruby's Sinatra.

Dancer is developed through GitHub and stable releases are available via CPAN.

Example

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Dancer;
 
get '/hello/:name' => sub {
    return "Why, hello there " . params->{name};
};
 
dance;

History

Philosophy

Features

Out-of-box

Unlike other frameworks, Dancer only requires 5 CPAN modules and is very self contained. As a result you can rapidly develop without being mired in configuration.

Standalone Development Server

Dancer includes a standalone development server that can be used for developing and testing software.

PSGI / Plack support

Dancer outputs to the PSGI spec thus it can be run on any Plack server and along with any server or protocol that supports the PSGI spec:

• uWSGI
• Mongrel 2

Abstracted

Since most parts of Dancer are abstracted, you can easily download or build extensions simply by extending a base class and writing your custom code.

The object system is also very lightweight allowing fast responses especially in CGI environments.

See also

• Comparison of web application frameworks

References

External links

• Dancer's Homepage
• GitHub
• CPAN