Dancer2
Lightweight web application framework written in Perl, built on Moo and running on PSGI.
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Dancer2 is a Perl web application framework that the project describes as the evolution of Dancer. The README says it is based on Moo, a lightweight object framework for Perl.
Dancer2 is installed from CPAN with cpanm. For production the deployment section of the manual says to use a PSGI-compatible web server such as the pre-forking Starman, and it also covers CGI and FastCGI under Apache. New applications use Dancer2::Template::Tiny for templates, and the tutorial shows how to switch to Template Toolkit. The project keeps a curated list of recommended plugins on MetaCPAN.
Worth knowing
The project site at perldancer.org describes the framework under the name Dancer, and its examples use Dancer2.
Sources
- 2026-10-26: links
perldancer.org/ - 2026-10-26: links, Written in, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/PerlDancer/Dancer2 - 2026-10-26: links, Maintainer, Runtime, Categories, License, License model
github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/blob/main/README.md - 2026-10-26: Minimum runtime, License, Current major version, Last release
fastapi.metacpan.org/v1/release/Dancer2 - 2026-10-26: Templating
raw.githubusercontent.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/main/lib/Dancer2/Manual/Tutorial.pod - 2026-10-26: Runs as
raw.githubusercontent.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/main/lib/Dancer2/Manual/Deployment.pod - 2026-10-26: Install with
raw.githubusercontent.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/main/lib/Dancer2/Manual/QuickStart.pod - 2026-10-26: First release
fastapi.metacpan.org/v1/release/_search?q=distribution:Dancer2&size=1&sort=date:asc - 2026-10-26: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/PerlDancer/Dancer2/contributors