NAME

Dancer2::Plugins - Recommended Dancer2 plugins

VERSION

version 1.1.2

DESCRIPTION

Dancer2 aims to keep the core as small as possible, but there are a growing number of useful plugins to add helpful features.

This document provides a quick summary of some recommended plugins.

Plugins

Dancer2::Plugin::Adapter

Wrap any simple class as a service for Dancer2.

Dancer2::Plugin::Ajax

Provides easy way to add Ajax route handlers.

Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::Tiny

Provides an extremely simple way of requiring that a user be logged in before allowing access to certain routes.

Dancer2::Plugin::BrowserDetect

Provides an easy to have info of the browser. keyword within your Dancer application.

Dancer2::Plugin::Cache::CHI

Provides caching for generated pages and/or arbitrary data. Uses CHI, so is backend-agnostic - caching can be done in memory, to files, using Memcache, in a database, or any other method for which there is a CHI::Driver module.

Dancer2::Plugin::Database

Provides easy database access via DBI, reading the DB connection details from your app's config file, and taking care of ensuring the connection is still valid and reconnecting if not (useful in persistent environments). Just calling the database keyword gives you a connected and working database handle. It also provides some helpful keywords to make inserting/updating data as simple as it should be.

Dancer2::Plugin::DBIC

Provides easy access to DBIx::Class database virtualization.

Dancer2::Plugin::Deferred

Provides a method for deferring a one-time message across a redirect. It is similar to "flash" messages, but without the race conditions that can result from multiple tabs in a browser or from AJAX requests.

Dancer2::Plugin::Emailesque

Provides easy email-sending powered by Email::Send - simply call the email keyword. Email sending settings can be taken from your app's config.

Dancer2::Plugin::Feed

Provides an easy way to generate RSS or Atom feed.

Dancer2::Plugin::Paginator

Dancer2 plugin for Paginator::Lite.

Dancer2::Plugin::Queue

Provides a generic interface to a message queue.

Dancer2::Plugin::Queue::MongoDB

A Dancer2::Plugin::Queue using MongoDBx::Queue.

Dancer2::Plugin::REST

Makes writing RESTful web services easy.

Dancer2::Plugin::RoutePodCoverage

Plugin to verify pod coverage in our app routes.

Dancer2::Plugin::Syntax::GetPost

Provides very simple syntactic sugar to define a handler for GET and POST requests.

Session Engines

Dancer2::Session::Cookie

A session factory for Dancer2 that stores session state within a browser cookie.

More plugins are appearing on CPAN all the time - just search for Dancer2::Plugin to see what may have been released since this document was last updated!

AUTHOR

Dancer Core Developers

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2024 by Alexis Sukrieh.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.