Mojolicious Explained

Author:	Sebastian Riedel
Released:	^[1]
Programming Language:	Perl
Genre:	Web application framework
License:	PAL

Mojolicious is a real-time web application framework, written by Sebastian Riedel, creator of the web application framework Catalyst.^[2] Licensed as free software under the Artistic License v 2.0, it is written in the Perl programming language, and is designed for use in both simple and complex web applications, based on Riedel's previous experience developing Catalyst.^[3] Documentation for the framework was partly funded by a grant from The Perl Foundation.^[4]

As it is written in Perl, Mojolicious can run on any of the many operating systems for which Perl is available, and can be installed directly from CPAN.^[5] Prebuilt packages of Mojolicious are also available for NetBSD from pkgsrc^[6] and for Microsoft Windows and other operating systems from ActiveState's Perl package manager.^[7]

Features

• Real-time web framework supporting a simplified single file mode through Mojolicious::Lite.^[8]
• Out-of-the-box support for RESTful routes, plugins, Perl-ish templates, session management, signed cookies, testing framework, static file server and full Unicode support.
• Portable and object oriented Perl API with no requirements besides Perl 5.10.1 (although 5.18+ is recommended, and optional CPAN modules will be used to provide advanced functionality if they are installed).
• Full stack HTTP and WebSocket.^{[9] [10]} Client/server implementation with IPv6, TLS, IDNA, Comet (long polling), chunking and multipart support.
• Built-in non-blocking I/O web server supporting libevent and hot deployment for embedding.^[11]
• Automatic CGI and PSGI detection.
• JSON and HTML5/XML parser with CSS3 selector support.^[12]

External links

• Mojolicious - Perl real-time web framework

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mojolicious change log.
2. Web site: Mojolicious 2.0: Modern Perl For the Web. Slashdot. 17 Oct 2011.
3. Web site: Mojolicious - An Interview with Sebastian Riedel. Tara Gibbs. ActiveState. 17 February 2011.
4. Web site: Mojolicious Documentation Closing Grant Report. Alberto Simões. The Perl Foundation. 16 Dec 2010.
5. Web site: Mojolicious. CPAN.
6. Web site: The NetBSD Packages Collection: www/p5-Mojolicious. pkgsrc.
7. Web site: Mojolicious. Perl package manager.
8. Web site: Mojolicious - Perl real-time web framework. Mojolicious.
9. Web site: Updating the Duct Tape for HTML5: Websockets in Perl (Mojolicious). https://web.archive.org/web/20171008232008/http://webdev.infowebcentral.com/redirect/85036. dead. 8 October 2017. DZone. 1 Nov 2011.
10. Book: McDaniel, Adam . HTML5: Your Visual Blueprint for Designing Rich Web Pages and Applications . Visual. November 2011. 978-0-470-95222-1.
11. News: Watch your processes remotely with Mojolicious and a smartphone. Jamie Popkin. Linux Journal. 2011 . 207. July 2011.
12. Web site: Mojolicious. Marcus Ramberg. Yet Another Perl Conference. 4 Dec 2010.