Recommendation for simple Web Frameworks

[David Precious]

On Thursday 06 January 2011 19:04:13 Simon Wistow wrote:
> I want to build a web site. In Perl. It needs to be dynamic but it's
> unlikely to need a database - it will however be pulling data from
> another data store and putting stuff into job queues.
> 
> In short - I don't really need the CRUD stuff from a framework, I really
> just need the url based dispatch. I played around with Catalyst (which
> I'm familiar with from 6A) but it felt like it was a bit of a
> sledgehammer and that it was (not unreasonably) tied to an ORM.

I was going to step in with a somewhat biased recommendation of Dancer, but 
I'm happy to see that it's already been recommended :)


> Actually, since I'm being lazy - is there a good guide or an example for
> doing OAuth under Plack / Dancer / Plack+Dancer?

Not that I'm aware of, but there should really!

I think there needs to be a Dancer::Plugin::Auth::OAuth - I'll try to get 
round to writing one as soon as I have a chance, but there's a fair chance 
someone else might well do it in the meantime.

By the way, you'll find the Dancer dev team (and some users, too :) ) on IRC 
in #dancer on irc.perl.org if you want to ask questions quickly.

Cheers

Dave P (bigpresh)


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