Awesome Perl

A curated list of awesome Perl5 frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-go27k 4k .

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Args

Libraries for argument manifestation and validation.

Data::Validator - Rule based validator on type constraint system.
Params::Util - Simple, compact and correct param-checking functions.
Params::Validate - Validate method/function parameters.
Smart::Args

Audio

Audio::CD - Interface to libcdaudio (cd + cddb)
Audio::Wav - Modules for reading & writing Microsoft WAV files.

Benchmarks

Libraries for benchmarking

Benchmark
Dumbbench
Parallel::Benchmark - Benchmark in multiprocesses

Caches

Libraries to talk to Cache Softwares

CHI - Unified cache handling interface, think DBI for caches
CHI::Driver::DBI - DBI driver for CHI
CHI::Driver::DBIC - DBIx::Class driver for CHI
CHI::Driver::Memcached - Memcached driver for CHI
CHI::Driver::MongoDB - MongoDB driver for CHI
CHI::Driver::Redis - Redis driver for CHI
Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::CHI - Use CHI module to handle storage backend for session data
CGI::Application::Plugin::CHI - CGI-App plugin for CHI caching interface
Mojolicious::Plugin::CHI - Interact with CHI caches

Class Builder

Libraries to support writing classes and meta programming

Class::Accessor::Lite - Simple accessor generator.
Class::Accessor::Lite::Lazy - Generate lazy accessors.
Homer - Simple Prototype-based object system.
Mo - Micro Objects. Mo is less.
Moo - Class builder supporting meta programming.
Moose - The one and only, Moose.
Mouse - Yet another class builder like Moo/Moose.
Object::Tiny - A class builder that is terse, fast, and tiny.

CLI

Libraries for developing CLI applications

App::Cmd - Write command line apps with less suffering.
Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options.

Cloud

AWS::CloudFront - Lightweight interface to Amazon CloudFront CDN
AWS::S3 - Lightweight interface to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Net::Amazon::EC2 - Interface to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment.
Net::AWS::SES - Perl extension that implements Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) client
WebService::DigitalOcean - Access the DigitalOcean RESTful API (v2)
WebService::Dropbox - Interface to Dropbox API

Container

Libraries for Singleton Pattern implementation.

Object::Container

Data Format

Libraries for serializing, formatting and parsing

Data::Dumper::Simple - Reduce and faster Data::Dumper and eval() equivalent
Data::MessagePack
JSON::PP
JSON::XS
Sereal
Storable
Text::CSV
Text::CSV_XS
Text::Markdown
TOML
XML::LibXML
XML::Compile::Schema - Interpret schema elements and types: create processors for XML messages.
XML::Compile::SOAP - Implements the SOAP 1.1 protocol, client side.
XML::Compile::WSDL - Use SOAP with a WSDL version 1.1 communication specification file.
YAML

Database

Libraries for dealing with relational databases

DBI
DBIx::Connector - Fast, safe DBI connection and transaction management
DBIx::Handler - Fork-safe DBI handler
DBIx::Inspector
DBIx::QueryLog
DBIx::Sunny - Useful DBI Wrapper
DBIx::TransactionManager

Database Drivers

Libraries for using specific database products

Relational Databases

DBD::CSV
DBD::Firebird
DBD::mysql
DBD::ODBC - Any ODBC Driver. MS-SQL w/ placeholders
DBD::Oracle - Oracle database driver for the DBI module
DBD::Pg - PostgreSQL driver for DBI.
DBD::SQLite
DBD::Sybase - Sybase and MS-SQL. No placeholders w/ MS-SQL though

NoSQL Databases

Cache::Memcached::Fast
Mango - Pure-Perl non-blocking I/O MongoDB driver
Redis
Redis::Fast - Perl wrapper around hiredis driver
Search::Elasticsearch - Offical Elasticsearch client library
UnQLite

Date & Time

Libraries for working with dates and times

Devices

Libraries to talk to physical devices

Device::Modem - Talk to modem devices conneted via serial port
Device::Onkyo - Control Onkyo/Integra AV equipment via LAN or Serial

DevOps Tools

Libraries that help when you what to deploy software across networks ond several hostsare working across computer networks

Rex - Remote Execution

Email

Libraries that implement email creation and sending

Email::Sender

Event Loops

Libraries for various event loops. Asynchronous programming if you like

AE - Simpler, faster, newer AnyEvent API
AnyEvent - the DBI of event loop programming
EV - Uses libev, very fast and popular. Default for AnyEvent if present
Event - Works well, but older
IO::Async - Asynchronous event-driven programming
POE - Common interface for several event loops

Exception Handling

Libraries that assist with and/or provide alternatives to eval{ die() }

autodie - Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
Exception::Class - A module that allows you to declare real exception classes in Perl
Throwable - a role for classes that can be thrown
Try::Tiny - minimal try/catch with proper preservation of $@
TryCatch - first class try catch semantics for Perl, without source filters

File Manipulation

File::Util - Easy, versatile, portable file handling.
Path::Tiny - Simple object-oriented file manipulation.

Form Frameworks

Libraries that take the boredom & repetition out of (web and UI) forms

Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu - Use HTML::FormFu in Catalyst.
CGI::FormBuilder - Easily generate and process stateful forms.
Form::Sensible - A sensible way to handle form based user interface.
Form::Toolkit - A toolkit to build Data centric Forms.
HTML::FormFu - HTML Form Creation, Rendering and Validation Framework.
HTML::FormFu::ExtJS - ExtJS form generation from HTML::FormFu config files.
HTML::FormHandler - HTML forms using Moose.
Mojolicious::Plugin::FormFields - Lightweight, flexible form builder with validation and filtering.
WWW::Form - Simple and extendable module that allows developers to handle HTML form input validation and display flexibly and consistently.

Images

Libraries for manipulating images

Image::Magick - An object-oriented interface to ImageMagick's image composing libraries.
Imager

List Manipulation

Libraries for manipulation lists (arrays)

Array::Unique - Tie-able array that allows only unique values
List::Compare - Compare elements of two or more lists
List::Gen - Provides functions for generating lists
List::MoreUtils - Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
List::Util - A selection of general-utility list subroutines

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files

Module Development

Libraries that simplify and improve Perl module development

Dist::Zilla - http://dzil.org/
Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool

Network

Libraries that help when you are dealing with computer networks

DOCSIS::ConfigFile - Decodes and encodes DOCSIS config files
NetAddr::MAC - Handle MAC addresses

Libraries that help when you are working across computer networks

Net::SSH::Perl - SSH client implemented in Perl.
Net::SSH2 - Wrapper for libssh2.
Net::OpenSSH - Run commands remotely using the OpenSSH client.
Net::OpenSSH::Parallel - Run remote commands in parallel using the OpenSSH client.
Net::SSH::Any - Run remote commands using any module or binary client available.
Net::SFTP::Foreign - SFTP client for remote file access.
Object::Remote - Run Perl code on remote machines.
Net::CLI::Interact - Automates interactive programs.
Net::Appliance::Session - Automates interaction with appliances.

ORM

Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management

App::cpanminus
Carton
Pinto - Powerful local CPAN repos

Processes and Threads

Libraries for managing processes and threads

Parallel::ForkManager - A simple parallel processing fork manager
Parallel::Prefork - A simple prefork server framework
Proclet - Minimalistic supervisor, a Perl port of foreman5k 569

Profiling

Libraries for examining run-time activity of your program

Devel::KYTProf - Very light profiler for I/Os such as HTTP request-responses and SQL queries.
Devel::NYTProf - Code profiler.

Protocol

Protocol clients and libraries

Furl - Faster HTTP(S) Client
HTTP::Tiny - Minimal and fast client. Included in the standard packages.
LWP::UserAgent - Popular HTTP(S) Client
Net::DHCP - Send and recieve DHCP packets
Net::DNS - Resolve DNS host names

Queueing

Message Queue, Job Queue System..

Science/Numerics

Hand-picked modules for research, science, numerics and hyper-computing

BioPerl
Chart::Clicker - Powerful, extensible charting
PDL
PDL (CPAN)
PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot
PDL::IO::*
PDL::LinearAlgebra
PDL::Stats
Physics::*

REST Frameworks

Libraries for developing REST applications

Catalyst::Action::REST - Automated REST Method Dispatching
Dancer2::Plugin::REST - A plugin for writing RESTful apps with Dancer2
Dancer::Plugin::REST - A plugin for writing RESTful apps with Dancer
Raisin - a REST API micro framework for Perl
Squatting - A Camping-inspired Web Microframework for Perl

Template Engines

Libraries and tools for templating

HTML::Template - Templates for web pages
Template::Alloy - TT2/3, HT, HTE, Tmpl, and Velocity Engine
Template::Toolkit - Very Popular Template Processing System
Text::MicroTemplate - Fast, simple and safe template engine written in pure-Perl and core modules.
Text::MicroTemplate::Extended - Extended Text::MicroTemplate.
Text::Template - Templates with embedded perl
Text::Xslate - Faster template engine with XS. Supports multiple syntaxes.
Tiffany - Generic interface for template engines. It makes it easy to use multiple template engines.
Template::Magic - Magic merger of runtime values with templates.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

Testing Frameworks

Test::Base - A Data Driven Testing Framework
Test::Base::Less - Limited version of Test::Base
Test::BDD::Cucumber - Implementation of the popular Cucumber framework in Perl
Test::Class - Class-based testing. Support "setup" and "teardown".
Test::Deep - Test deep and complex data structures with great flexibility.
Test::Deep::Matcher
Test::Harness - Run Perl standard test scripts with statistics
Test::Kantan - simple, flexible, fun "Testing framework"
Test::More

Test Double

Test::Exception
Test::Fatal - Simple module for verifying exceptions.
Test::Mock::Guard - Mocking package subroutines.
Test::MockTime
Test::mysqld
Test::TCP - Launch temporary TCP Server
Test::Time - Simple module for faking system time.

Coverage

Devel::Cover
Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls Report to Coveralls

Tools

Some useful tools

App::Ack - ack is a tool like grep, optimized for programmers.
App::Nopaste - Post to various pastebins from the CLI
Daiku - Make for Perl.
Data::Printer - Colored pretty-print of Perl data structures and objects.
Reply - Read-eval-print-loop(REPL) command-line tool.
Riji - Static site generator using markdown and git mainly for blogging.

Libraries for developping command line applications

Toolbox::Simple - Simplfy some common tasks in Perl.
Script::Toolbox - Framework for the daily business scripts.
Devel::Kit- Handy toolbox of things to ease development/debugging.

Libraries for handling configuration files

Config::Tiny - Read/Write .ini style files with as little code as possible

Video

FFmpeg - Interface to FFmpeg, a video converter written in C
Video::Info - Retrieve video properties such as: height width codec fps

Web Frameworks

Libraries for developing Web applications

Amon2
Catalyst - Overflowing with features. Very popular.
Dancer (Official site)
Dancer2
Gantry - Web application framework for mod_perl, cgi, etc.
Kossy - A Web framework with simple interface.
Mojolicious - An all in one framework.
Poet - a modern Perl web framework for Mason developers

Middlewares

Libraries for creating HTTP middlewares

Gazelle - Preforked Plack Handler for performance freaks
Plack - PSGI server implementation and utilities for Web applications.
Server::Starter - Process manager with the "graceful restart" feature.
Starlet - High-performance PSGI Server
Starman - High-performance preforking PSGI/Plack web server
Twiggy - Event-driven PSGI application server

Web Frameworks-Like

Somewhere between templates and full on frameworks

Embperl - Building dynamic Websites with Perl (sort of like Perl crossed with PHP)
Mason - Powerful, high-performance templating for the web and beyond

Web Scraping

Libraries for extracting some information from websites

Web::Scraper

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