1# PODNAME: Dancer::Plugins
2# ABSTRACT: interesting plugins to add to Dancer's capabilities
3
4__END__
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6=pod
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8=encoding UTF-8
9
10=head1 NAME
11
12Dancer::Plugins - interesting plugins to add to Dancer's capabilities
13
14=head1 VERSION
15
16version 1.3513
17
18=head1 DESCRIPTION
19
20Dancer aims to keep the core as small as possible, but there are a growing
21number of useful plugins to add helpful features.
22
23This document provides a quick summary of some recommended plugins.
24
25=head1 PLUGINS
26
27=over 4
28
29=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Database>
30
31Provides easy database access via DBI, reading the DB connection details from
32your app's config file, and taking care of ensuring the connection is still valid
33and reconnecting if not (useful in persistent environments).  Just calling the
34C<database> keyword gives you a connected and working database handle. It also
35provides some helpful keywords to make inserting/updating data as simple as it
36should be.
37
38=item L<Dancer::Plugin::DBIC>
39
40Provides easy access to DBIx::Class database virtualization.
41
42=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Auth::RBAC>
43
44Dancer Authentication, Security and Role-Based Access Control Framework.
45
46=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Email>
47
48Provides easy email-sending powered by Email::Send - simply call the C<email>
49keyword.  Email sending settings can be taken from your app's config.
50
51=item L<Dancer::Plugin::SMS>
52
53Send SMS text messages to mobile phones from your Dancer app, using any service
54supported by L<SMS::Send>.
55
56=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Ajax>
57
58Provides easy way to add Ajax route handlers.
59
60=item L<Dancer::Plugin::REST>
61
62Makes writing RESTful web services easy.
63
64=item L<Dancer::Plugin::SiteMap>
65
66Automatically provides site maps (as an HTML page, or as an XML sitemap ready for
67Google) based on the routes your app defines.
68
69=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Params::Normalization>
70
71Provides different ways of normalizing parameter names
72
73=item L<Dancer::Plugin::SimpleCRUD>
74
75Provides easy CRUD (create, read, update, delete) facilities, automatically
76creating routes to display, add, edit and delete data from a database table.
77
78=item L<Dancer::Plugin::WebSocket>
79
80Supports building apps using Web Sockets for bi-directional, full-duplex
81communications over a long-lived socket connection.
82
83=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Memcached>
84
85Cache page responses or individual items of data with memcached for performance.
86
87=item L<Dancer::Plugin::MobileDevice>
88
89Quickly determine whether the client is a mobile browser, in order to offer a
90simplified layout, or otherwise customise features.
91
92=item L<Dancer::Plugin::NYTProf>
93
94Provides dead-simple profiling of your app using L<Devel::NYTProf> - enables
95profiling for each request individually, serves up a list of profiling runs, and
96generates & sends the HTML reports produced by C<nytprofhtml>.
97
98=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Bcrypt>
99
100Provides simple effective password hashing and validation using Bcrypt.
101
102=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Cache::CHI>
103
104Provides caching for generated pages and/or arbitrary data.  Uses L<CHI>, so is
105backend-agnostic - caching can be done in memory, to files, using Memcache, in a
106database, or any other method for which there is a L<CHI::Driver> module.
107
108=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Thumbnail>
109
110Easy thumbnail generation using L<GD>.
111
112=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Captcha::SecurityImage>
113
114Easy CAPTCHA image generation and validation, using L<GD>.
115
116=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Facebook>
117
118Easily work with Facebook's Graph API from your Perl Dancer app.  Uses
119L<Facebook::Graph>.
120
121=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Redis>
122
123Easy L<Redis> database connections, based upon L<Dancer::Plugin::Database>.
124
125=item L<Dancer::Plugin::XML::RSS>
126
127Easy XML RSS creation and consumption.
128
129=back
130
131More plugins are appearing on CPAN all the time - just search for
132C<Dancer::Plugin> to see what may have been released since this document was
133last updated!
134
135=head1 AUTHOR
136
137Dancer Core Developers
138
139=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
140
141This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Alexis Sukrieh.
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143This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
144the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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