Dancer2...te::Tiny(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Dancer2::Template::Tiny — it's the Template::Tiny engine for Dancer2, bestie. That's the whole vibe. This is the Dancer2...te::Tiny(3) manual page btw, in case you were wondering what you clicked on. 🎀

✨ VERSION ✨

version 2.2.1 — she's on 2.2.1, no cap. 👑

---

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Okay so here's the tea: this template engine lets you use Template::Tiny inside your Dancer2 app. Literally that's it. That's her job. 💅

Now, Template::Tiny is an implementation of a subset of Template::Toolkit — like, the major parts, the main-character bits — except it eats much less memory and it's faster. So if you're only using the main functions of Template::Toolkit, you could totally just use Template::Tiny instead. And the best part? You can seamlessly move back to Template::Toolkit whenever you want. No drama, no locked doors, no "oops I'm trapped now". 🦋

To use this engine, all you gotta configure in your Dancer2's config.yaml is:

template: "tiny"

And of course — because we contain multitudes — you can also set this while you're working, using set:

# code code code
set template => 'tiny';

Oh and here's a lil something iconic: since Dancer2 has internal support for a wrapper-like option with the layout configuration option, you can have a Template::Toolkit-like WRAPPER even though Template::Tiny doesn't really support it. Yes, she's giving what Template::Toolkit is giving. Periodt. 🔥

---

💜 METHODS 💜

💅 render($template, \%tokens)

This one renders the template. Slay.

• The first arg is a filename for the template file, or a reference to a string that contains the template. Either/or, your call, bestie.
• The second arg is a hashref for the tokens that you wish to pass to Template::Toolkit for rendering.

That's the whole method. Short, sweet, efficient. We stan. 🌟

---

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• Dancer2
• Dancer2::Core::Role::Template
• Template::Tiny

---

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Dancer Core Developers — legends, honestly. 👑

---

🌈 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌈

This software is copyright (c) 2026 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. Free as in freedom, free as in go off. 💖

---

k bye bestie, this was perl v5.42.3 dropping on 2026-09-20, and it's the Dancer2...te::Tiny(3) page — hope she served u well ✨💅🎀