Plack::...starter(3)

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✨ NAME ✨

Plack::Loader::Restarter — bestie, it's literally the Restarting loader 💅

(also, hi, you're reading the Plack::...starter(3) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation set, so you know it's giving official-but-also-a-little-feral 🎀)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

plackup -r -R paths

okay so that's the whole vibe right there. two little flags and you're off 🦋

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So Plack::Loader::Restarter is a loader backend, right? And what it does is implement the -r and -R options for the plackup script. That's its whole job. That's its moment. 👑

Here's the tea on how it actually works:

  • it forks the server as a child process 🍼
  • the parent sits there watching the directories for file updates 👀
  • and the second it gets that notification — like, whenever it receives it — it kills the child server and restart 💀✨

no cap, that's it. touch a file, baby server gets yoinked, new one spawns. main character energy fr fr.

ngl the killing part sounds mean but that's literally the point, it's a restarter, that's the whole personality 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • Plack::Runner 💙
  • Catalyst::Restarter 🧡

and that's the page bestie!! 🎀 this was written for perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-10-18, so if you're reading it way later just know she's an icon and she's doing her best ⭐💜 mwah, go restart something 😭🔥

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