The document discusses the various plugins available for Dancer, a web development framework for Perl. It tells a story about a Perl web developer named Joe who is working on an important new project and finds that there is a Dancer plugin to meet nearly all of his needs, such as templates, logging, authentication, databases, APIs, email, social media, and more. It also notes that if a needed plugin does not already exist, new ones can be easily created due to Dancer's modular architecture.

1. Dancer's ecosystem French Perl Workshop 2011 http://github.com/sukria http://twitter.com/sukria CPAN: sukria Alexis Sukrieh

2. The ecosystem

3. Dancer's ecosystem A selection of plugins FPW 2011 Alexis Sukrieh

4. Dancer's ecosystem A selection of plugins FPW 2011 Alexis Sukrieh

5. Dancer's ecosystem A story of a web developer... FPW 2011 Alexis Sukrieh

6. Dancer's ecosystem Once upon a time, there was a company

7. Dancer's ecosystem And there was a guy, a Perl web developer

8. Dancer's ecosystem Wait. A Perl web developer we said.

9. Dancer's ecosystem So there was this guy, a Perl web developer we said. Joe.

10. Dancer's ecosystem There is this project...

11. Dancer's ecosystem It's top-priority

12. Dancer's ecosystem We don't know yet what it should do...

13. Dancer's ecosystem But it's very important that it does it well...

14. Dancer's ecosystem And of course, it's already late

15. Dancer's ecosystem Joe will use Dancer

16. Dancer's ecosystem Because he want's to get things done

17. Dancer's ecosystem First of all, there are all these HTML templates sent by the designers

18. Dancer's ecosystem He wants to use Template Toolkit

19. Dancer's ecosystem Dancer::Template::TemplateToolkit Well, it's in the core

20. Dancer's ecosystem But the boss said we're gonna use Xslate Because it's faster

21. Dancer's ecosystem Well, there's a plugin for that Dancer::Template::Xslate

22. Dancer's ecosystem And we have to log lots of stuff to Syslog

23. Dancer's ecosystem There's a plugin for that Dancer::Logger::Syslog

24. Dancer's ecosystem But wait, we'll have to authenticate users

25. Dancer's ecosystem We'll need a session engine!

26. Dancer's ecosystem Joe wants YAML files! It's so convienent during development

27. Dancer's ecosystem There's a plugin for that Dancer::Session::YAML

28. Dancer's ecosystem But, well in production, we want Memcached

29. Dancer's ecosystem There's a plugin for that Dancer::Session::Memcached

30. Dancer's ecosystem Wait, something is very slow Joe wants to time the requests

31. Dancer's ecosystem There's a plugin for that Dancer::Plugin::TimeRequests

32. Dancer's ecosystem But during development, Joe wants the log messages to be sent to Firebug

33. Dancer's ecosystem There's a plugin for that Dancer::Logger::PSGI + Plack::Middleware::ConsoleLogger

34. Dancer's ecosystem OK, but you know, we have a database We want to access...

35. Dancer's ecosystem There's a plugin for that Dancer::Plugin::Database

36. Dancer's ecosystem But, well we're modern right? We want DBIx::Class

37. Dancer's ecosystem There's a plugin for that Dancer::Plugin::DBIC

38. Dancer's ecosystem And we use Moose, because we're actually post-modern! So we want to use KiokuDB

39. Dancer's ecosystem Again, there's a plugin for that Dancer::Session::KiokuDB

40. Dancer's ecosystem Joe's boss saw Ruby on Rails He really liked their ”flash” messages Boss wants that.

41. Dancer's ecosystem No worries Joe, there's a plugin for that Dancer::Plugin::FlashMessage

42. Dancer's ecosystem Oh, we'll have to plug our website with a third-party entity We need an API webservice.

43. Dancer's ecosystem There's a plugin for that Dancer::Plugin::REST

44. Dancer's ecosystem But the API webservice is not ready And we want the third-party entity to start developing with it...

45. Dancer's ecosystem Let's make it a fake API, with static responses. There's a plugin for that. Dancer::Plugin::Fake::Response

46. Dancer's ecosystem And we have email notifications right?

47. Dancer's ecosystem There's a plugin for that Dancer::Plugin::Email

48. Dancer's ecosystem What about a Facebook app? It's so hype!

49. Dancer's ecosystem Well, guess what, there's a plugin for that Dancer::Plugin::Facebook

50. Dancer's ecosystem Well, even cooler than Facebook, there is Twitter! Dancer::Plugin::Auth::Twitter

51. Dancer's ecosystem Joe's boss heard about cookie-encrypted sessions It's hype, and he wants it.

52. Dancer's ecosystem There's a plugin for that Dancer::Session::Cookie

53. Dancer's ecosystem But wait, there is this other app we should share our sessions with... ”Single-sign on” it's so hype

54. Dancer's ecosystem PSGI for the win!

55. Dancer's ecosystem There is a plugin for that: Dancer::Session::PSGI

56. Dancer's ecosystem What about mobile phones? We want a light layout for the app on smartphones

57. Dancer's ecosystem There's a plugin for that Dancer::Plugin::MobileDevice

58. Dancer's ecosystem Cool. Our freaky monster starts to look good...

59. Dancer's ecosystem But what if Joe needs a specific plugin?

60. Dancer's ecosystem What if there IS NOT a plugin for that?

61. Dancer's ecosystem Well, he can writes his own, piece of cake Dancer::Plugin

62. Dancer's ecosystem A specific session engine? There's Dancer::Session::Abstract for that

63. Dancer's ecosystem A specific logger engine? There's Dancer::Logger::Abstract for that

64. Dancer's ecosystem A new kickass template engine? There's Dancer::Template::Abstract for that

65. Dancer's ecosystem Dancer is modular

66. Dancer's ecosystem Everything is made to make it simple to extend

67. Dancer's ecosystem Now it's time for Joe to code!