Awesome Perl – Massive Collection of Resources

Not Perl6 modules ;-P

Another module list

We also recommend these lists.

• 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::…)

Contents

• Awesome Perl
  • Args
  • Audio
  • Benchmarks
  • Caches
  • Class Builder
  • CLI
  • Cloud
  • Commercial WebServices
  • Container
  • Data Format
  • Database
  • Database Drivers
    • Relational Databases
    • NoSQL Databases
  • Date & Time
  • Devices
  • DevOps
  • Email
  • Event Loops
  • Exception Handling
  • File Manipulation
  • Form Frameworks
  • Images
  • List Manipulation
  • Logging
  • Module Development
  • Network
  • ORM
  • Package Management
  • Processes and Threads
  • Profiling
  • Protocol
  • Queueing
  • REST Frameworks
  • Science/Numerics
  • Stream Manipulation
  • Template Engines
  • Testing
    • Testing Frameworks
    • Test Double
    • Coverage
  • Tools
  • Video
  • Web Frameworks
    • Middlewares
  • Web Frameworks-Like
  • Web Scraping

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

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

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

• Log::Dispatch
• Log::Log4perl
• Log::Minimal

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

• DBIx::Class
• Rose::DB
• Teng

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..

• Gearman
• Minion – Pure-Perl job queue
• Net::RabbitMQ
• Net::Stomp
• Qudo
• Resque
• TheSchwartz

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

Web Scraping

Libraries for extracting some information from websites

• Web::Scraper