DANCER(1p)

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version 1.3522 · 3 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💖 DANCER 💖

okay bestie, so this is dancer — the helper script from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual (section 1p, for the record). it's giving ✨ bootstrapping ✨ and honestly? iconic. full name's dancer, and she's here to make you a whole new Dancer app without you having to hand-craft every single file like some kind of medieval peasant. periodt. 🎀

✨ VERSION ✨

version 1.3522 🦋

(that's the version, bestie. no notes, that's literally just the number.)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dancer [options] -a <appname>

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual. 💅

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so like… dancer is a helper script dancer that gives you a bootstrapping method (yes bestie, that's the actual term) so you can quickly and easily create the framework for a brand new Dancer application. no cap. you run it, it makes the whole skeleton, you're done. main character energy from the very first command. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

one bullet per option, no skipping, we do not summarise in this house. 🙈

  • -h, --help — prints what you are currently reading. which is… this. meta. we love a self-aware king. 🔥
  • -a, --application — the name of your application. this one's kind of the whole point, bestie. it literally puts the app in application. 🌈
  • -p, --path — the path where to create your application. if you don't specify it? it uses the current directory. so it knows where it is. self-aware again. ⭐
  • -x, --no-check — don't check for the latest version of Dancer. real talk: checking the version implies an internet connection, so if you're offline or just anti-social (valid), use this and skip the whole thing. 🫶
  • -v, --version — print the version of dancer being used. the eternal "who am i, why am i here" option. very relatable. 💜

🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

okay so here's an application created with dancer. look at this. LOOK AT IT. the whole tree, poof, out of nowhere:

$ dancer -a MyWeb::App
+ MyWeb-App
    + MyWeb-App/bin
    + MyWeb-App/bin/app.pl
    + MyWeb-App/config.yml
    + MyWeb-App/environments
    + MyWeb-App/environments/development.yml
    + MyWeb-App/environments/production.yml
    + MyWeb-App/views
    + MyWeb-App/views/index.tt
    + MyWeb-App/views/layouts
    + MyWeb-App/views/layouts/main.tt
    + MyWeb-App/MANIFEST.SKIP
    + MyWeb-App/lib
    + MyWeb-App/lib/MyWeb
    + MyWeb-App/lib/MyWeb/App.pm
    + MyWeb-App/public
    + MyWeb-App/public/css
    + MyWeb-App/public/css/style.css
    + MyWeb-App/public/css/error.css
    + MyWeb-App/public/images
    + MyWeb-App/public/500.html
    + MyWeb-App/public/404.html
    + MyWeb-App/public/dispatch.fcgi
    + MyWeb-App/public/dispatch.cgi
    + MyWeb-App/public/javascripts
    + MyWeb-App/public/javascripts/jquery.min.js
    + MyWeb-App/t
    + MyWeb-App/t/002_index_route.t
    + MyWeb-App/t/001_base.t
    + MyWeb-App/Makefile.PL

and then?? the application is ready to serve. immediately. she ate and left no crumbs. 🍓

$ cd MyWeb-App
$ ./bin/app.pl
>> Listening on 127.0.0.1:3000
== Entering the development dance floor ...

"entering the development dance floor" — the way that this program casually dropped the hardest line in software. 😭 i'm obsessed.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Dancer Core Developers

collectively. as a unit. the whole squad. 💖

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Alexis Sukrieh.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

🔥 real talk: that "same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself" bit is the actual license deal — free software, remix it, share it, but the terms are the Perl 5 ones. keep that energy. 💅

and that's the whole page, bestie! 🌈 the version of perl doing the rendering here is perl v5.40.1, this page was dated 2026-05-05, and it went out as part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation — DANCER(1p), in the 1p manual section. slay, bye, go build something cute. 💜✨🦋

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