Dancer2::Manual::Plugins(3pm)

NAME
Dancer2::Plugins - A curated list of recommended Dancer2 plugins

VERSION
version 2.1.0

DESCRIPTION
Dancer2 aims to keep the core as small as possible, but there are a growing number of useful plugins to add helpful features.

This document provides a quick summary of some recommended plugins.

  Plugins

Dancer2::Plugin::Adapter
    Wrap any simple class as a service for Dancer2.

Dancer2::Plugin::Ajax
    Provides easy way to add Ajax route handlers.

Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::Tiny
    Provides an extremely simple way of requiring that a user be logged in before allowing access to certain routes.

Dancer2::Plugin::BrowserDetect
    Provides an easy to have info of the browser. keyword within your Dancer application.

Dancer2::Plugin::Cache::CHI
    Provides caching for generated pages and/or arbitrary data. Uses CHI, so is 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.

Dancer2::Plugin::Database
    Provides easy database access via DBI, reading the DB connection details from your app's config file, and taking care of ensuring the connection is still valid and reconnecting if not (useful in persistent environments). Just calling the "database" keyword gives you a connected and working database handle. It also provides some helpful keywords to make inserting/updating data as simple as it should be.

Dancer2::Plugin::DBIC
    Provides easy access to DBIx::Class database virtualization.

Dancer2::Plugin::Deferred
    Provides a method for deferring a one-time message across a redirect. It is similar to "flash" messages, but without the race conditions that can result from multiple tabs in a browser or from AJAX requests.

Dancer2::Plugin::Emailesque
    Provides easy email-sending powered by Email::Send - simply call the "email" keyword. Email sending settings can be taken from your app's config.

Dancer2::Plugin::Feed
    Provides an easy way to generate RSS or Atom feed.

Dancer2::Plugin::Paginator
    Dancer2 plugin for Paginator::Lite.

Dancer2::Plugin::Queue
    Provides a generic interface to a message queue.

Dancer2::Plugin::Queue::MongoDB
    A Dancer2::Plugin::Queue using MongoDBx::Queue.

Dancer2::Plugin::REST
    Makes writing RESTful web services easy.

Dancer2::Plugin::RoutePodCoverage
    Plugin to verify pod coverage in our app routes.

Dancer2::Plugin::Syntax::GetPost
    Provides very simple syntactic sugar to define a handler for GET and POST requests.

  Session Engines

Dancer2::Session::Cookie
    A session factory for Dancer2 that stores session state within a browser cookie.

More plugins are appearing on CPAN all the time - just search for "Dancer2::Plugin" to see what may have been released since this document was last updated!

AUTHOR
Dancer Core Developers

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.