Programming the web with Dancer

Dancer is a lightweight featureful beautiful web framework in Perl. The class covers how Dancer works, how to use it effectively, and various tricks and hints for a successful and productive usage of it in production environment, whether it is in a major company, a start up, or your personal website.

Class outline

1. Dancer 1 vs. Dancer 2
2. Dancer2 syntax
3. Writing tests
4. Middlewares (mounting, Plack::Builder)
5. Deployment
6. Best practices
7. Tips and tricks

Intended audience

Perl beginner programmers, web beginners and web intermediates

Familiarity with Perl and at least a brief understanding of web programming is required.

Required materials

Each student must bring:

• Laptop - mandatory
• Perl + Editor - mandatory
• Preinstalled modules: Dancer2 >=0.159000 - Starman - Test::More >= 0.98 - HTTP::Request
• Git
• cURL (if Linux/Mac - not essential)