chenryn/awesome-perl

A curated list of awesome Perl frameworks and libraries. Come on Pull Requests!

Awesome Perl

A curated list of awesome Perl5 frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-go.

Not Perl6 modules ;-P

Contents

• Awesome Perl
  • Benchmarks
  • CUI
  • Class Builder
  • Database
  • Database Drivers
  • Date & Time
  • File Manipulation
  • Images
  • Logging
  • ORM
  • Package Management
  • Data Analysis and Visualization
  • DevOps Tools
  • Processes and Threads
  • Concurrent Programming
  • Profiling
  • Protocol
  • Serialize
  • Template Engines
  • Testing
  • Tools
  • Text Processing
  • Web Frameworks
    • Middlewares

Benchmarks

• Benchmark
• Parallel::Benchmark - Benchmark in multiprocesses

CUI

• Getopt::Long

Class Builder

• Class::Accessor::Lite - Simply accessor generator.
• Class::Accessor::Lite::Lazy - Generate lazy accessor.
• Moo - Class Builder supported Meta programmings.
• Mouse - Yet another class builder such as Moo/Moose.

Database

• DBI
• DBIx::Sunny - useful DBI Wrapper
• DBIx::TransactionManager
• DBIx::Handler - fork safe DBI handler
• DBIx::Inspector
• DBIx::QueryLog

Database Drivers

• Relational Databases

  • DBD::mysql
  • DBD::Pg - PostgreSQL driver for DBI.
  • DBD::SQLite

• NoSQL Databases

  • Cache::Memcached::Fast
  • Redis
  • Redis::Fast - using hiredis driver
  • UnQLite
  • Mango - Pure-Perl non-blocking I/O MongoDB driver

Date & Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• Time::Piece
• Time::Moment
• DateTime

Email

Libraries that implement email creation and sending

• Email::Sender

File Manipulation

• Path::Tiny - Simple interface object file manipulation.

Images

Libraries for manipulating images.

• Imager

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

• Log::Minimal
• Message::Passing - A high performance log managing tools inspired by logstash

ORM

Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.

• DBIx::Class
• Teng

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

• App::cpanminus
• Carton

Data Analysis and Visualization

• PDL
• Math::Pari
• SVG

DevOps Tools

• Rex - Deployment & Configuration Management
• MogileFS - A pure-perl distributed filesystem
• Nagios::Plugin - A family of perl modules to streamline writing Nagios plugins
• stf - Yet another distributed filesystem built on PSGI
• webmin - A web-based system configuration tool for Unix-like systems
• smokeping - A latency logging and graphing and alerting system
• cloudforecast A distributed monitor system
• Thruk - A multibackend monitoring webinterface for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken using the Livestatus API
• RT - Request Tracker

Processes and Threads

• Parallel::ForkManager A simple parallel processing fork manager
• Parallel::Prefork A simple prefork server framework
• Proclet minimalistic Supervisor, perl port of foreman
• Ubic - Polymorphic service manager
• Gearman - Distributed Job System

Concurrent Programming

• EV - perl interface to libev, a high performance full-featured event loop
• Coro - Coroutine
• AnyEvent - the DBI of event loop programming
• IO::Async
• Promises
• Future

Profiling

• Devel::NYTProf - Code profiler.
• Devel::KYTProf - Very light profiler for SQL and Quering HTTP and other.

Protocol

Protocol Clients and Libiraries

• LWP::UserAgent - Popular HTTP(S) Client
• Furl - Faster HTTP(S) Client
• HTTP::Tiny - Tiny HTTP(S) Client in corelist

Serialize

Serialize Data Structures. See also Text Processing.

• Storable
• Data::MessagePack

Template Engines

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

• Text::Xslate - Faster template engine with XS. support multiple syntax.
• Text::MircoTemplate - Fast and Simple and Safe templete engine written in PurePerl and Core Modules.
• Text::MircoTemplate::Extended - Support Extended Text::MicroTemplate.
• Tiffany - Generic Interface for Template Engines. Easy to use multiple template engines.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Testing Frameworks

  • Test::More
  • Test::Class - Class base testing. support setup and teardown.
  • Test::Deep
  • Test::Deep::Matcher

• Mock

  • Test::Mock::Guard - Mocking package subroutines.
  • Test::Mock::Time
  • Test::Time - Simple faking time.
  • Test::Fatal - Simple Verify Exceptions.
  • Test::Exception
  • Test::mysqld
  • Test::TCP - launch temporary TCP Server

• Coverage

  • Devel::Cover
  • Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls Report to Coveralls

Tools

• Reply - Read-eval-print-loop(REPL) command

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating texts.

• Specific Formats
  • XML::LibXML
  • JSON::XS
  • JSON::PP
  • YAML
  • TOML
  • Text::Markdown
  • Web::Scraper
  • Mojo::DOM

Web Frameworks

• Amon2
• Mojolicious
• Dancer
• Kossy - Simply interface framework.

Middlewares

Libraries for creating HTTP middlewares.

• Plack - PSGI server implement and Utilities for Web applications.
• Starlet - High-performance PSGI Server
• Twiggy - Event-driven PSGI application server
• Server::Starter - Graceful restart process manager for server.
• PocketIO - a server implementation of Socket.IO in Perl