Appendix E. Dancing with Perl
Web work is a very common use of Perl. The Web is a heavily text-based medium, with plain-text HTTP being used to negotiate the transfer of plain-text HTML, XML, or JSON resources.
In the past, CGI (Common Gateway Interface) was used, but today a module called Dancer is a popular alternative. Dancer is a free, open-source micro Web application framework written in Perl that creates Web applications by building a list of HTTP verbs, routes, and methods to handle them. (See www.perldancer.org/quickstart.)
Dancer, as well as all the other popular modern Web frameworks (such as Mojolicious ...
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