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Awesome Perl – Massive Collection of Resources

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A curated list of awesome Perl5 resources, including frameworks, libraries and software.

Not Perl6 modules ;-P

Another module list

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Task::Kensho
Perlres – A list of resources about Perl
PerlMaven.com list of Perl Software
Slaven’s CPAN in a nutshell
Many Task::** Modules. (ex. Task::Plack, Task::BeLike::…)

Awesome Perl

Args

Libraries for argument manifestation and validation.

Data::Validator – Rule based validator on type constraint system.
Params::Util – Simple, compact and correct param-checking functions.
Params::ValidationCompiler – Validate method/function parameters.
Smart::Args

Audio

Audio::CD – Interface to libcdaudio (cd + cddb)
Audio::Wav – Modules for reading & writing Microsoft WAV files.

Benchmarks

Libraries for benchmarking

Benchmark
Dumbbench
Parallel::Benchmark – Benchmark in multiprocesses

Caches

Libraries to talk to Cache Softwares

CHI – Unified cache handling interface, think DBI for caches
CHI::Driver::DBI – DBI driver for CHI
CHI::Driver::DBIC – DBIx::Class driver for CHI
CHI::Driver::Memcached – Memcached driver for CHI
CHI::Driver::MongoDB – MongoDB driver for CHI
CHI::Driver::Redis – Redis driver for CHI
Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::CHI – Use CHI module to handle storage backend for session data
CGI::Application::Plugin::CHI – CGI-App plugin for CHI caching interface
Mojolicious::Plugin::CHI – Interact with CHI caches

Class Builder

Libraries to support writing classes and meta programming

Class::Accessor::Lite – Simple accessor generator.
Class::Accessor::Lite::Lazy – Generate lazy accessors.
Homer – Simple Prototype-based object system.
Mo – Micro Objects. Mo is less.
Moo – Class builder supporting meta programming.
Moose – The one and only, Moose.
Mouse – Yet another class builder like Moo/Moose.
Object::Pad – class Example { has $x; method reader { return $x } }, experimental proving-ground for Cor
Object::Tiny – A class builder that is terse, fast, and tiny.

CLI

Libraries for developing CLI applications

App::Cmd – Write command line apps with less suffering.
Getopt::Long – Extended processing of command line options.

Cloud

AWS::CloudFront – Lightweight interface to Amazon CloudFront CDN
AWS::S3 – Lightweight interface to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Net::Amazon::EC2 – Interface to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment.
Net::AWS::SES – Perl extension that implements Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) client
WebService::DigitalOcean – Access the DigitalOcean RESTful API (v2)
WebService::Dropbox – Interface to Dropbox API

Commercial WebServices

Net::Xero – Interface to Xero accounting
PagerDuty::Agent – A perl PagerDuty client
WebService::Spotify – A simple interface to the Spotify Web API
WebService::Xero – Access Xero Accounting Package Public and Private Application API
WWW::Shopify – object representing acess to a particular Shopify store
WWW::Spotify – Spotify Web API Wrapper

Container

Libraries for Singleton Pattern implementation.

Object::Container

Data Format

Libraries for serializing, formatting and parsing

BSON – Binary JSON format
CBOR::Free – Support for (CBOR)[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049], IETF’s “binary JSON”
Data::Dumper::Simple – Reduce and faster Data::Dumper and eval() equivalent
Data::MessagePack
JSON::PP
JSON::XS
Sereal
Storable
Text::CSV
Text::CSV_XS
Text::Markdown
TOML
XML::LibXML
XML::Compile::Schema – Interpret schema elements and types: create processors for XML messages.
XML::Compile::SOAP – Implements the SOAP 1.1 protocol, client side.
XML::Compile::WSDL – Use SOAP with a WSDL version 1.1 communication specification file.
YAML

Database

Libraries for dealing with relational databases

DBI
DBIx::Connector – Fast, safe DBI connection and transaction management
DBIx::Handler – Fork-safe DBI handler
DBIx::Inspector
DBIx::QueryLog
DBIx::Sunny – Useful DBI Wrapper
DBIx::TransactionManager

Database Drivers

Libraries for using specific database products

Relational Databases

DBD::CSV
DBD::Firebird
DBD::mysql
DBD::ODBC – Any ODBC Driver. MS-SQL w/ placeholders
DBD::Oracle – Oracle database driver for the DBI module
DBD::Pg – PostgreSQL driver for DBI.
DBD::SQLite
DBD::Sybase – Sybase and MS-SQL. No placeholders w/ MS-SQL though

NoSQL Databases

Cache::Memcached::Fast
Mango – Pure-Perl non-blocking I/O MongoDB driver
Redis
Redis::Fast – Perl wrapper around hiredis driver
Search::Elasticsearch – Offical Elasticsearch client library
UnQLite

Date & Time

Libraries for working with dates and times

Devices

Libraries to talk to physical devices

Device::Modem – Talk to modem devices conneted via serial port
Device::Onkyo – Control Onkyo/Integra AV equipment via LAN or Serial

DevOps Tools

Libraries that help when you want to deploy software across networks on several hosts/are working across computer networks

Rex – Remote Execution

Email

Libraries that implement email creation and sending

Email::Sender

Event Loops

Libraries for various event loops. Asynchronous programming if you like

AE – Simpler, faster, newer AnyEvent API
AnyEvent – the DBI of event loop programming
EV – Uses libev, very fast and popular. Default for AnyEvent if present
Event – Works well, but older
IO::Async – Asynchronous event-driven programming
POE – Common interface for several event loops
Promise::XS – Promises in Perl

Exception Handling

Libraries that assist with and/or provide alternatives to eval{ die() }

autodie – Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
Exception::Class – A module that allows you to declare real exception classes in Perl
Syntax::Keyword::Try – a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
Throwable – a role for classes that can be thrown
Try::Tiny – minimal try/catch with proper preservation of $@
TryCatch – first class try catch semantics for Perl, without source filters

File Manipulation

File::Util – Easy, versatile, portable file handling.
Path::Tiny – Simple object-oriented file manipulation.

Form Frameworks

Libraries that take the boredom & repetition out of (web and UI) forms

Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu – Use HTML::FormFu in Catalyst.
CGI::FormBuilder – Easily generate and process stateful forms.
Form::Sensible – A sensible way to handle form based user interface.
Form::Toolkit – A toolkit to build Data centric Forms.
HTML::FormFu – HTML Form Creation, Rendering and Validation Framework.
HTML::FormFu::ExtJS – ExtJS form generation from HTML::FormFu config files.
HTML::FormHandler – HTML forms using Moose.
Mojolicious::Plugin::FormFields – Lightweight, flexible form builder with validation and filtering.
WWW::Form – Simple and extendable module that allows developers to handle HTML form input validation and display flexibly and consistently.

Images

Libraries for manipulating images

Image::Magick – An object-oriented interface to ImageMagick’s image composing libraries.
Imager

List Manipulation

Libraries for manipulation lists (arrays)

Array::Unique – Tie-able array that allows only unique values
List::AllUtils – Combines List::Util, List::SomeUtils and List::UtilsBy in one bite-sized package
List::Compare – Compare elements of two or more lists
List::Gen – Provides functions for generating lists
List::MoreUtils – Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
List::SomeUtils – Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
List::Util – A selection of general-utility list subroutines
List::UtilsBy – higher-order list utility functions

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files

Module Development

Libraries that simplify and improve Perl module development

Dist::Zilla – http://dzil.org/
Minilla – CPAN module authoring tool

Network

Libraries that help when you are dealing with computer networks

DOCSIS::ConfigFile – Decodes and encodes DOCSIS config files
NetAddr::MAC – Handle MAC addresses

Libraries that help when you are working across computer networks

Net::SSH::Perl – SSH client implemented in Perl.
Net::SSH2 – Wrapper for libssh2.
Net::OpenSSH – Run commands remotely using the OpenSSH client.
Net::OpenSSH::Parallel – Run remote commands in parallel using the OpenSSH client.
Net::SSH::Any – Run remote commands using any module or binary client available.
Net::SFTP::Foreign – SFTP client for remote file access.
Object::Remote – Run Perl code on remote machines.
Net::CLI::Interact – Automates interactive programs.
Net::Appliance::Session – Automates interaction with appliances.

ORM

Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management

App::cpanminus
Carton
Pinto – Powerful local CPAN repos

Processes and Threads

Libraries for managing processes and threads

Parallel::ForkManager – A simple parallel processing fork manager
Parallel::Prefork – A simple prefork server framework
Proclet – Minimalistic supervisor, a Perl port of foreman

Profiling

Libraries for examining run-time activity of your program

Devel::KYTProf – Very light profiler for I/Os such as HTTP request-responses and SQL queries.
Devel::NYTProf – Code profiler.

Protocol

Protocol clients and libraries

Furl – Faster HTTP(S) Client
HTTP::Tiny – Minimal and fast client. Included in the standard packages.
LWP::UserAgent – Popular HTTP(S) Client
Net::Curl – (libcurl)[https://curl.se/libcurl/] integration
Net::DHCP – Send and receive DHCP packets
Net::DNS – Resolve DNS host names
Protocol::DBus – D-Bus in (pure) Perl

Queueing

Message Queue, Job Queue System..

Science/Numerics

Hand-picked modules for research, science, numerics and hyper-computing

BioPerl
Chart::Clicker – Powerful, extensible charting
PDL
PDL (CPAN)
PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot
PDL::IO::*
PDL::LinearAlgebra
PDL::Stats
Physics::*

Stream Manipulation

Libraries for manipulating event streams

RxPerl – Perl implementation of Reactive Extensions / rxjs

REST Frameworks

Libraries for developing REST applications

Catalyst::Action::REST – Automated REST Method Dispatching
Dancer2::Plugin::REST – A plugin for writing RESTful apps with Dancer2
Dancer::Plugin::REST – A plugin for writing RESTful apps with Dancer
Raisin – a REST API micro framework for Perl
Squatting – A Camping-inspired Web Microframework for Perl

Template Engines

Libraries and tools for templating

HTML::Template – Templates for web pages
Template::Alloy – TT2/3, HT, HTE, Tmpl, and Velocity Engine
Template::Toolkit – Very Popular Template Processing System
Text::MicroTemplate – Fast, simple and safe template engine written in pure-Perl and core modules.
Text::MicroTemplate::Extended – Extended Text::MicroTemplate.
Text::Template – Templates with embedded perl
Text::Xslate – Faster template engine with XS. Supports multiple syntaxes.
Tiffany – Generic interface for template engines. It makes it easy to use multiple template engines.
Template::Magic – Magic merger of runtime values with templates.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

Testing Frameworks

Test::Base – A Data Driven Testing Framework
Test::Base::Less – Limited version of Test::Base
Test::BDD::Cucumber – Implementation of the popular Cucumber framework in Perl
Test::Class – Class-based testing. Support “setup” and “teardown”.
Test::Deep – Test deep and complex data structures with great flexibility.
Test::Deep::Matcher
Test::Harness – Run Perl standard test scripts with statistics
Test::Kantan – simple, flexible, fun “Testing framework”
Test::More

Test Double

Test::Exception
Test::Fatal – Simple module for verifying exceptions.
Test::Mock::Guard – Mocking package subroutines.
Test::MockTime
Test::mysqld
Test::TCP – Launch temporary TCP Server
Test::Time – Simple module for faking system time.

Coverage

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

Tools

Some useful tools

App::Ack – ack is a tool like grep, optimized for programmers.
App::Nopaste – Post to various pastebins from the CLI
Daiku – Make for Perl.
Data::Printer – Colored pretty-print of Perl data structures and objects.
Reply – Read-eval-print-loop(REPL) command-line tool.
Riji – Static site generator using markdown and git mainly for blogging.
Smart::Comments – Comments that do more than just sit there.

Libraries for developping command line applications

Toolbox::Simple – Simplfy some common tasks in Perl.
Script::Toolbox – Framework for the daily business scripts.
Devel::Kit– Handy toolbox of things to ease development/debugging.

Libraries for handling configuration files

Config::Tiny – Read/Write .ini style files with as little code as possible

Video

FFmpeg – Interface to FFmpeg, a video converter written in C
Video::Info – Retrieve video properties such as: height width codec fps

Web Frameworks

Libraries for developing Web applications

Amon2
Catalyst – Overflowing with features. Very popular.
Dancer (Official site)
Dancer2
Gantry – Web application framework for mod_perl, cgi, etc.
Kossy – A Web framework with simple interface.
Mojolicious – An all in one framework.
Poet – a modern Perl web framework for Mason developers

Middlewares

Libraries for creating HTTP middlewares

Gazelle – Preforked Plack Handler for performance freaks
Plack – PSGI server implementation and utilities for Web applications.
Server::Starter – Process manager with the “graceful restart” feature.
Starlet – High-performance PSGI Server
Starman – High-performance preforking PSGI/Plack web server
Twiggy – Event-driven PSGI application server

Web Frameworks-Like

Somewhere between templates and full on frameworks

Embperl – Building dynamic Websites with Perl (sort of like Perl crossed with PHP)
Mason – Powerful, high-performance templating for the web and beyond