Dancer::Plugins(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

Dancer::Plugins — it's literally a lil' roundup of interesting plugins you can add to Dancer's capabilities 💅 (this is the Dancer::Plugins page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, bestie, and it's about to be your new fav bookmark 🎀)

🦋 VERSION 🦋

This is version 1.3522, no cap ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so here's the whole vibe: Dancer's whole thing is keeping the core as small as possible, right? Like, minimalism is the moment. But plot twist — there are a growing number of useful plugins out there to add helpful features, and the list just keeps getting longer 👑

This document? It's your quick summary of some recommended plugins. A little menu, if you will 🍓

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🌈 PLUGINS 🌈

Sit down bestie, we're going shopping 🛍️

• Dancer::Plugin::Database — gives you easy database access via DBI, and it reads the DB connection details straight from your app's config file. It also handles the whole "is this connection still valid?" thing and reconnects if it isn't (which slays in persistent environments, fr). Just call the database keyword and boom — you get a connected, working database handle. It also brings some helpful keywords so inserting/updating data is as simple as it should be. Iconic.
• Dancer::Plugin::DBIC — easy access to DBIx::Class database virtualization. That's the whole thing. Periodt.
• Dancer::Plugin::Auth::RBAC — Dancer Authentication, Security and Role-Based Access Control Framework. Yes she does it all 💅
• Dancer::Plugin::Email — easy email-sending powered by Email::Send. You literally just call the email keyword. And your email sending settings? Taken from your app's config. Chef's kiss 🎀
• Dancer::Plugin::SMS — send SMS text messages to mobile phones from your Dancer app, using any service supported by SMS::Send. Texting, but from your code 🫶
• Dancer::Plugin::Ajax — easy way to add Ajax route handlers. Simple, clean, no drama ✨
• Dancer::Plugin::REST — makes writing RESTful web services easy. RESTful queen 👑
• Dancer::Plugin::SiteMap — automatically provides site maps based on the routes your app defines. You can get it as an HTML page, or as an XML sitemap ready for Google. It builds itself, bestie, you don't lift a finger 🌸
• Dancer::Plugin::Params::Normalization — provides different ways of normalizing parameter names. Vibe check your params 🦋
• Dancer::Plugin::SimpleCRUD — easy CRUD (create, read, update, delete) facilities. It automatically creates routes to display, add, edit and delete data from a database table. Automatic. Slay 💅
• Dancer::Plugin::WebSocket — supports building apps using Web Sockets for bi-directional, full-duplex communications over a long-lived socket connection. Full duplex is the main character energy we deserve 😭
• Dancer::Plugin::Memcached — cache page responses or individual items of data with memcached for performance. Speed. 🔥
• Dancer::Plugin::MobileDevice — quickly determine whether the client is a mobile browser, so you can offer a simplified layout or otherwise customise features. Tiny screens deserve love too 📱
• Dancer::Plugin::NYTProf — dead-simple profiling of your app using Devel::NYTProf. It enables profiling for each request individually, serves up a list of profiling runs, and generates & sends the HTML reports produced by nytprofhtml. Let her tell you where the time went ⭐
• Dancer::Plugin::Bcrypt — provides simple effective password hashing and validation using Bcrypt. Protect those passwords, bestie 🔐
• Dancer::Plugin::Cache::CHI — provides caching for generated pages and/or arbitrary data. It uses CHI, so it's backend-agnostic — caching can be done in memory, to files, using Memcache, in a database, or any other method for which there is a CHI::Driver module. Choose your fighter 💖
• Dancer::Plugin::Thumbnail — easy thumbnail generation using GD. Little images, big vibes 🎀
• Dancer::Plugin::Captcha::SecurityImage — easy CAPTCHA image generation and validation, using GD. Keep the bots out, keep the real ones in 🧚
• Dancer::Plugin::Facebook — easily work with Facebook's Graph API from your Perl Dancer app. It uses Facebook::Graph. 👑
• Dancer::Plugin::Redis — easy Redis database connections, based upon Dancer::Plugin::Database. Respect the lineage 💜
• Dancer::Plugin::XML::RSS — easy XML RSS creation and consumption. Feeds, but make it fashion 🌈

And bestie — more plugins are appearing on CPAN all the time. Just search for Dancer::Plugin to see what may have been released since this document was last updated! Go look, I'll wait 🫶

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Dancer Core Developers — legends, honestly 👑

💜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 💜

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. Free as in go wild with it 💅

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Okay that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 This was Dancer::Plugins (3pm), shipped with perl v5.40.1 and dated 2026-05-05. Go install something cute, you've earned it 💖✨