HYPNOTOAD(1p)

💖 HYPNOTOAD 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about hypnotoad — aka the Hypnotoad HTTP and WebSocket server, living its best life over in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual (you know, the 1p corner of the world 🐸✨). She's a Perl thing, she's a server thing, and she is lowkey iconic. No cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the whole vibe, verbatim, because we do not play with syntax in this house:

Usage: hypnotoad [OPTIONS] [APPLICATION]

  hypnotoad ./script/my_app
  hypnotoad ./myapp.pl
  hypnotoad -f ./myapp.pl

Options:
  -f, --foreground   Keep manager process in foreground
  -h, --help         Show this message
  -s, --stop         Stop server gracefully
  -t, --test         Test application and exit

like… look at her go 🫶 three whole ways to launch, and a little option buffet at the bottom.

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

one bullet per flag, no skipping, we're thorough in this group chat:

• -f, --foreground — keeps the manager process in the foreground. it does not go hide in the background, it stays right there, main character energy, watching you 👀
• -h, --help — shows you this message. the "bestie explain" button 💅
• -s, --stop — stops the server gracefully. polite. elegant. she leaves the party without slamming the door 🎀
• -t, --test — tests the application and then exits. a lil vibe check before the real thing ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: hypnotoad is how you start Mojolicious and Mojolicious::Lite applications with the Hypnotoad web server. that's the whole thing. that's the job. she runs your app, she's an HTTP server, she's a WebSocket server, she contains multitudes 💜🌈⭐

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these next, i'm obsessed:

• Mojolicious
• Mojolicious::Guides
• <https://mojolicious.org>

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this lil doc came to you courtesy of the perl v5.40.1 era, dated 2026-07-15 — so go forth, hypnotoad your apps, and slay responsibly 🐸👑💅