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# Perl Resources
The following are a few resources for individuals trying to learn Perl.
## Tutorials:
* [TutorialPoint Perl Tutorial](https://www.tutorialspoint.com/perl/index.htm)
* [PerTutorial.org](https://www.perltutorial.org/)
* [PerlMaven Tutorial](https://perlmaven.com/perl-tutorial)
## Libraries for developing CLI applications
* [App::Cmd](https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Cmd) - Write command line apps with less suffering.
* [Getopt::Long](https://metacpan.org/pod/Getopt::Long) - Extended processing of command line options.
## Cloud
* [AWS::CloudFront](https://metacpan.org/pod/AWS::CloudFront) - Lightweight interface to Amazon CloudFront CDN
* [AWS::S3](https://metacpan.org/pod/AWS::S3) - Lightweight interface to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
* [Net::Amazon::EC2](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Amazon::EC2) - Interface to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment.
* [Net::AWS::SES](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::AWS::SES) - Perl extension that implements Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) client
* [WebService::DigitalOcean](https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::DigitalOcean) - Access the DigitalOcean RESTful API (v2)
* [WebService::Dropbox](https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::Dropbox) - Interface to Dropbox API
## Cryptography
* [Bitcoin::Crypto](https://metacpan.org/pod/Bitcoin::Crypto) - Bitcoin cryptography in Perl
* [CryptX](https://metacpan.org/pod/CryptX) - Cryptographic toolkit
## Commercial WebServices
* [Net::Xero](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Xero) - Interface to Xero accounting
* [PagerDuty::Agent](https://metacpan.org/pod/PagerDuty::Agent) - A perl PagerDuty client
* [WebService::Spotify](https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::Spotify) - A simple interface to the Spotify Web API
* [WebService::Xero](https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::Xero) - Access Xero Accounting Package Public and Private Application API
* [WWW::Shopify](https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Shopify) - object representing acess to a particular Shopify store
* [WWW::Spotify](https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Spotify) - Spotify Web API Wrapper
## Container
*Libraries for Singleton Pattern implementation.*
* [Object::Container](https://metacpan.org/pod/Object::Container)
## Data Format
*Libraries for serializing, formatting and parsing*
* [BSON](https://metacpan.org/pod/BSON) - Binary JSON format
* [CBOR::Free](https://metacpan.org/pod/CBOR::Free) - Support for (CBOR)[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049], IETFs “binary JSON”
* [Data::Dumper::Simple](https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Dumper::Simple) - Reduce and faster Data::Dumper and eval() equivalent
* [Data::MessagePack](https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::MessagePack)
* [JSON::PP](https://metacpan.org/pod/JSON::PP)
* [JSON::XS](https://metacpan.org/pod/JSON::XS)
* [Sereal](https://metacpan.org/pod/Sereal)
* [Storable](https://metacpan.org/pod/Storable)
* [Text::CSV](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::CSV)
* [Text::CSV_XS](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::CSV_XS)
* [Text::Markdown](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Markdown)
* [TOML](https://metacpan.org/pod/TOML)
* [XML::LibXML](https://metacpan.org/pod/XML::LibXML)
* [XML::Compile::Schema](https://metacpan.org/pod/XML::Compile::Schema) - Interpret schema elements and types: create processors for XML messages.
* [XML::Compile::SOAP](https://metacpan.org/pod/XML::Compile::SOAP) - Implements the SOAP 1.1 protocol, client side.
* [XML::Compile::WSDL](https://metacpan.org/pod/XML::Compile::WSDL) - Use SOAP with a WSDL version 1.1 communication specification file.
* [YAML](https://metacpan.org/pod/YAML)
## Database
*Libraries for dealing with relational databases*
* [DBI](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBI)
* [DBIx::Connector](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Connector) - Fast, safe DBI connection and transaction management
* [DBIx::Handler](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Handler) - Fork-safe DBI handler
* [DBIx::Inspector](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Inspector)
* [DBIx::QueryLog](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::QueryLog)
* [DBIx::Sunny](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Sunny) - Useful DBI Wrapper
* [DBIx::TransactionManager](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::TransactionManager)
## Database Drivers
*Libraries for using specific database products*
### Relational Databases
* [DBD::CSV](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::CSV)
* [DBD::Firebird](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::Firebird)
* [DBD::mysql](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::mysql)
* [DBD::ODBC](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::ODBC) - Any ODBC Driver. MS-SQL w/ placeholders
* [DBD::Oracle](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::Oracle) - Oracle database driver for the DBI module
* [DBD::Pg](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::Pg) - PostgreSQL driver for DBI.
* [DBD::SQLite](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::SQLite)
* [DBD::Sybase](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::Sybase) - Sybase and MS-SQL. No placeholders w/ MS-SQL though
### NoSQL Databases
* [Cache::Memcached::Fast](https://metacpan.org/pod/Cache::Memcached::Fast)
* [Mango](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mango) - Pure-Perl non-blocking I/O MongoDB driver
* [Redis](https://metacpan.org/pod/Redis)
* [Redis::Fast](https://metacpan.org/pod/Redis::Fast) - Perl wrapper around hiredis driver
* [Search::Elasticsearch](https://metacpan.org/pod/Search::Elasticsearch) - Offical Elasticsearch client library
* [UnQLite](https://metacpan.org/pod/UnQLite)
## Date & Time
*Libraries for working with dates and times*
* [DateTime](https://metacpan.org/pod/DateTime)
* [Time::Moment](https://metacpan.org/pod/Time::Moment)
* [Time::Piece](https://metacpan.org/pod/Time::Piece)
## Devices
*Libraries to talk to physical devices*
* [Device::SerialPort](https://metacpan.org/pod/Device::SerialPort) - Generic Serial Port library for serial line communication
* [Device::Modem](https://metacpan.org/pod/Device::Modem) - Talk to modem devices conneted via serial port
* [Device::Onkyo](https://metacpan.org/pod/Device::Onkyo) - Control Onkyo/Integra AV equipment via LAN or Serial
* [Chipcard::PCSC::Card](https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/pcsc-perl/Card/Card.pod) - Control Smart card using perl and PCSC
* [Device::XBee::API](https://metacpan.org/pod/Device::XBee::API) - Control XBee Device using pure perl code
* [Device::Firmata](https://metacpan.org/pod/Device::Firmata) - module for controlling Firmata devices like Arduino
## DevOps Tools
*Libraries that help when you want to deploy software across networks on several hosts/are working across computer networks*
* [Rex](https://metacpan.org/pod/Rex) - Remote Execution
## Email
*Libraries that implement email creation and sending*
* [Email::Sender](https://metacpan.org/pod/Email::Sender)
* [Email::Reply](https://metacpan.org/pod/Email::Reply)
* [Email::Stuffer](https://metacpan.org/pod/Email::Stuffer)
## Event Loops
*Libraries for various event loops. Asynchronous programming if you like*
* [AE](https://metacpan.org/pod/AE) - Simpler, faster, newer AnyEvent API
* [AnyEvent](https://metacpan.org/pod/AnyEvent) - the DBI of event loop programming
* [EV](https://metacpan.org/pod/EV) - Uses libev, very fast and popular. Default for AnyEvent if present
* [Event](https://metacpan.org/pod/Event) - Works well, but older
* [IO::Async](https://metacpan.org/pod/IO::Async) - Asynchronous event-driven programming
* [POE](https://metacpan.org/pod/POE) - Common interface for several event loops
* [Promise::XS](https://metacpan.org/pod/Promise::XS) - Promises in Perl
## Exception Handling
*Libraries that assist with and/or provide alternatives to eval{ die() }*
* [autodie](https://metacpan.org/pod/autodie) - Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
* [Exception::Class](https://metacpan.org/pod/Exception::Class) - A module that allows you to declare real exception classes in Perl
* [Syntax::Keyword::Try](https://metacpan.org/pod/Syntax::Keyword::Try) - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
* [Throwable](https://metacpan.org/pod/Throwable) - a role for classes that can be thrown
* [Try::Tiny](https://metacpan.org/pod/Try::Tiny) - minimal try/catch with proper preservation of $@
* [TryCatch](https://metacpan.org/pod/TryCatch) - first class try catch semantics for Perl, without source filters
## DOM Manipulation
* [HTML5::DOM](https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML5::DOM) - Super fast html5 DOM library with css selectors (based on Modest/MyHTML).
## File Manipulation
* [File::Util](https://metacpan.org/pod/File::Util) - Easy, versatile, portable file handling.
* [Path::Tiny](https://metacpan.org/pod/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](https://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu) - Use HTML::FormFu in Catalyst.
* [CGI::FormBuilder](https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI::FormBuilder) - Easily generate and process stateful forms.
* [Form::Sensible](https://metacpan.org/pod/Form::Sensible) - A sensible way to handle form based user interface.
* [Form::Tiny](https://metacpan.org/pod/Form::Tiny) - Forms reusing Type::Tiny type constraints.
* [Form::Toolkit](https://metacpan.org/pod/Form::Toolkit) - A toolkit to build Data centric Forms.
* [HTML::FormFu](https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::FormFu) - HTML Form Creation, Rendering and Validation Framework.
* [HTML::FormFu::ExtJS](https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::FormFu::ExtJS) - ExtJS form generation from HTML::FormFu config files.
* [HTML::FormHandler](https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::FormHandler) - HTML forms using Moose.
* [Mojolicious::Plugin::FormFields](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::FormFields) - Lightweight, flexible form builder with validation and filtering.
* [WWW::Form](https://metacpan.org/pod/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](https://metacpan.org/pod/Image::Magick) - An object-oriented interface to ImageMagick's image composing libraries.
* [Imager](https://metacpan.org/pod/Imager)
* [GD](https://metacpan.org/pod/GD) - Interface to Gd Graphics Library
* [Image::Info](https://metacpan.org/pod/Image::Info) - Get image informations
* [Image::PNG::Libpng](https://metacpan.org/pod/release/BKB/Image-PNG-Libpng-0.52_03/lib/Image/PNG/Libpng.pm) - Perl interface for libpng
* [Graphics::TIFF](https://metacpan.org/pod/Graphics::TIFF) - Perl wrapper for libtiff
* [Image::BMP](https://metacpan.org/pod/Image::BMP) - Perl bitmap image parser and viewer
## List Manipulation
*Libraries for manipulation lists (arrays)*
* [Array::Unique](https://metacpan.org/pod/Array::Unique) - Tie-able array that allows only unique values
* [List::AllUtils](https://metacpan.org/pod/List::AllUtils) - Combines List::Util, List::SomeUtils and List::UtilsBy in one bite-sized package
* [List::Compare](https://metacpan.org/pod/List::Compare) - Compare elements of two or more lists
* [List::Gen](https://metacpan.org/pod/List::Gen) - Provides functions for generating lists
* [List::MoreUtils](https://metacpan.org/pod/List::MoreUtils) - Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
* [List::SomeUtils](https://metacpan.org/pod/List::SomeUtils) - Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
* [List::Util](https://metacpan.org/pod/List::Util) - A selection of general-utility list subroutines
* [List::UtilsBy](https://metacpan.org/pod/List::UtilsBy) - higher-order list utility functions
## Logging
*Libraries for generating and working with log files*
* [Log::Dispatch](https://metacpan.org/pod/Log::Dispatch)
* [Log::Log4perl](https://metacpan.org/pod/Log::Log4perl)
* [Log::Minimal](https://metacpan.org/pod/Log::Minimal)
## Module Development
*Libraries that simplify and improve Perl module development*
* [Dist::Zilla](https://metacpan.org/pod/Dist::Zilla) - <http://dzil.org/>
* [Minilla](https://metacpan.org/pod/Minilla) - CPAN module authoring tool
## Network
*Libraries that help when you are dealing with computer networks*
* [DOCSIS::ConfigFile](https://metacpan.org/pod/DOCSIS::ConfigFile) - Decodes and encodes DOCSIS config files
* [NetAddr::MAC](https://metacpan.org/pod/NetAddr::MAC) - Handle MAC addresses
*Libraries that help when you are working across computer networks*
* [Net::SSH::Perl](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::SSH::Perl) - SSH client implemented in Perl.
* [Net::SSH2](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::SSH2) - Wrapper for [libssh2](https://libssh2.org/).
* [Net::OpenSSH](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::OpenSSH) - Run commands remotely using the [OpenSSH](http://www.openssh.com/) client.
* [Net::OpenSSH::Parallel](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::OpenSSH::Parallel) - Run remote commands in parallel using the OpenSSH client.
* [Net::SSH::Any](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::SSH::Any) - Run remote commands using any module or binary client available.
* [Net::SFTP::Foreign](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::SFTP::Foreign) - SFTP client for remote file access.
* [Object::Remote](https://metacpan.org/pod/Object::Remote) - Run Perl code on remote machines.
* [Net::CLI::Interact](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::CLI::Interact) - Automates interactive programs.
* [Net::Appliance::Session](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Appliance::Session) - Automates interaction with appliances.
## ORM
*Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques*
* [DBIx::Class](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Class)
* [Rose::DB](https://metacpan.org/pod/Rose::DB)
* [Teng](https://metacpan.org/pod/Teng)
## Package Management
*Libraries for package and dependency management*
* [App::cpanminus](https://metacpan.org/pod/App::cpanminus)
* [Carton](https://metacpan.org/pod/Carton)
* [Pinto](https://metacpan.org/pod/Pinto) - Powerful local CPAN repos
## Processes and Threads
*Libraries for managing processes and threads*
* [Parallel::ForkManager](https://metacpan.org/pod/Parallel::ForkManager) - A simple parallel processing fork manager
* [Parallel::Prefork](https://metacpan.org/pod/Parallel::Prefork) - A simple prefork server framework
* [Proclet](https://metacpan.org/pod/Proclet) - Minimalistic supervisor, a Perl port of [foreman](https://github.com/ddollar/foreman)
## Profiling
*Libraries for examining run-time activity of your program*
* [Devel::KYTProf](https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::KYTProf) - Very light profiler for I/Os such as HTTP request-responses and SQL queries.
* [Devel::NYTProf](https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::NYTProf) - Code profiler.
## Protocol
*Protocol clients and libraries*
* [Furl](https://metacpan.org/pod/Furl) - Faster HTTP(S) Client
* [HTTP::Tiny](https://metacpan.org/pod/HTTP::Tiny) - Minimal and fast client. Included in the standard packages.
* [LWP::UserAgent](https://metacpan.org/pod/LWP::UserAgent) - Popular HTTP(S) Client
* [Net::Curl](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Curl) - (libcurl)[https://curl.se/libcurl/] integration
* [Net::DHCP](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::DHCP) - Send and receive DHCP packets
* [Net::DNS](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::DNS) - Resolve DNS host names
* [Protocol::DBus](https://metacpan.org/pod/Protocol::DBus) - D-Bus in (pure) Perl
## Queueing
*Message Queue, Job Queue System..*
* [Gearman](https://metacpan.org/pod/Gearman)
* [Minion](https://docs.mojolicious.org/Minion) - Pure-Perl job queue
* [Net::RabbitMQ](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::RabbitMQ)
* [Net::Stomp](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Stomp)
* [Qudo](https://metacpan.org/pod/Qudo)
* [Resque](https://metacpan.org/pod/Resque)
* [TheSchwartz](https://metacpan.org/pod/TheSchwartz)
## Science/Numerics
*Hand-picked modules for research, science, numerics and hyper-computing*
* [BioPerl](https://metacpan.org/pod/BioPerl)
* [Chart::Clicker](https://metacpan.org/pod/Chart::Clicker) - Powerful, extensible charting
* [PDL](http://pdl.perl.org/)
* [PDL (CPAN)](https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL)
* [PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot](https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot)
* [PDL::IO::*](https://metacpan.org/search?q=PDL%3A%3AIO&size=20)
* [PDL::LinearAlgebra](https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::LinearAlgebra)
* [PDL::Stats](https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::Stats)
* [Physics::*](https://metacpan.org/search?q=physics%3A%3A&size=20)
## Stream Manipulation
*Libraries for manipulating event streams*
* [RxPerl](https://metacpan.org/pod/RxPerl) - Perl implementation of [Reactive Extensions](http://reactivex.io) / rxjs
## REST Frameworks
*Libraries for developing REST applications*
* [Catalyst::Action::REST](https://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst::Action::REST) - Automated REST Method Dispatching
* [Dancer2::Plugin::REST](https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2::Plugin::REST) - A plugin for writing RESTful apps with Dancer2
* [Dancer::Plugin::REST](https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer::Plugin::REST) - A plugin for writing RESTful apps with Dancer
* [Raisin](https://metacpan.org/pod/Raisin) - a REST API micro framework for Perl
* [Squatting](https://metacpan.org/pod/Squatting) - A Camping-inspired Web Microframework for Perl
## Template Engines
*Libraries and tools for templating*
* [HTML::Template](https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::Template) - Templates for web pages
* [Template::Alloy](https://metacpan.org/pod/Template::Alloy) - TT2/3, HT, HTE, Tmpl, and Velocity Engine
* [Template::Toolkit](https://metacpan.org/pod/Template::Toolkit) - Very Popular Template Processing System
* [Text::MicroTemplate](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::MicroTemplate) - Fast, simple and safe template engine written in pure-Perl and core modules.
* [Text::MicroTemplate::Extended](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::MicroTemplate::Extended) - Extended Text::MicroTemplate.
* [Text::Template](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Template) - Templates with embedded perl
* [Text::Xslate](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Xslate) - Faster template engine with XS. Supports multiple syntaxes.
* [Tiffany](https://metacpan.org/pod/Tiffany) - Generic interface for template engines. It makes it easy to use multiple template engines.
* [Template::Magic](https://metacpan.org/pod/Template::Magic) - Magic merger of runtime values with templates.
## Testing
*Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.*
### Testing Frameworks
* [Test::Base](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Base) - A Data Driven Testing Framework
* [Test::Base::Less](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Base::Less) - Limited version of Test::Base
* [Test::BDD::Cucumber](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::BDD::Cucumber) - Implementation of the popular Cucumber framework in Perl
* [Test::Class](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Class) - Class-based testing. Support "setup" and "teardown".
* [Test::Deep](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Deep) - Test deep and complex data structures with great flexibility.
* [Test::Deep::Matcher](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Deep::Matcher)
* [Test::Harness](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Harness) - Run Perl standard test scripts with statistics
* [Test::Kantan](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Kantan) - simple, flexible, fun "Testing framework"
* [Test::More](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::More)
### Test Double
* [Test::Exception](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Exception)
* [Test::Fatal](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Fatal) - Simple module for verifying exceptions.
* [Test::Mock::Guard](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Mock::Guard) - Mocking package subroutines.
* [Test::MockTime](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::MockTime)
* [Test::mysqld](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::mysqld)
* [Test::TCP](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::TCP) - Launch temporary TCP Server
* [Test::Time](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Time) - Simple module for faking system time.
### Coverage
* [Devel::Cover](https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::Cover)
* [Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls](https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls) Report to Coveralls
## Tools
*Some useful tools*
* [App::Ack](https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Ack) - ack is a tool like grep, optimized for programmers.
* [App::Nopaste](https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Nopaste) - Post to various pastebins from the CLI
* [Daiku](https://metacpan.org/pod/Daiku) - Make for Perl.
* [Data::Printer](https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Printer) - Colored pretty-print of Perl data structures and objects.
* [Reply](https://metacpan.org/pod/Reply) - Read-eval-print-loop(REPL) command-line tool.
* [Riji](https://metacpan.org/pod/Riji) - Static site generator using markdown and git mainly for blogging.
* [Smart::Comments](https://metacpan.org/pod/Smart::Comments) - Comments that do more than just sit there.
*Libraries for developping command line applications*
* [Toolbox::Simple](https://metacpan.org/pod/Toolbox::Simple) - Simplfy some common tasks in Perl.
* [Script::Toolbox](https://metacpan.org/pod/Script::Toolbox) - Framework for the daily business scripts.
* [Devel::Kit](https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::Kit)- Handy toolbox of things to ease development/debugging.
*Libraries for handling configuration files*
* [Config::Tiny](https://metacpan.org/pod/Config::Tiny) - Read/Write .ini style files with as little code as possible
## Type checking
* [MooseX::Types](https://metacpan.org/pod/MooseX::Types) - Moose types management tool
* [Type::Tiny](https://metacpan.org/pod/Type::Tiny) - Tiny, yet comprehensive type library
## Video
* [FFmpeg](https://metacpan.org/pod/FFmpeg) - Interface to FFmpeg, a video converter written in C
* [Video::Info](https://metacpan.org/pod/Video::Info) - Retrieve video properties such as: height width codec fps
* [Vlc::Engine](https://metacpan.org/pod/Vlc::Engine) - use Vlc media player with Perl
* [VideoLAN::LibVLC](https://metacpan.org/pod/VideoLAN::LibVLC) - Perl bindings for libvlc.so
* [Video::Generator](https://metacpan.org/pod/Video::Generator) - Perl class for video generation
## Web Frameworks
*Libraries for developing Web applications*
* [Amon2](https://metacpan.org/pod/Amon2)
* [Catalyst](https://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst) - Overflowing with features. Very popular.
* [Dancer](https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer) ([Official site](http://perldancer.org/))
* [Dancer2](https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2)
* [Gantry](https://metacpan.org/pod/Gantry) - Web application framework for mod\_perl, cgi, etc.
* [Kelp](https://metacpan.org/pod/Kelp) - Plack-focused Perl web framework
* [Kossy](https://metacpan.org/pod/Kossy) - A Web framework with simple interface.
* [Mojolicious](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious) - An all in one framework.
* [Poet](https://metacpan.org/pod/Poet) - a modern Perl web framework for Mason developers
### Middlewares
*Libraries for creating HTTP middlewares*
* [Gazelle](https://metacpan.org/pod/Gazelle) - Preforked Plack Handler for performance freaks
* [Plack](https://metacpan.org/pod/Plack) - PSGI server implementation and utilities for Web applications.
* [Server::Starter](https://metacpan.org/pod/Server::Starter) - Process manager with the "graceful restart" feature.
* [Starlet](https://metacpan.org/pod/Starlet) - High-performance PSGI Server
* [Starman](https://metacpan.org/pod/Starman) - High-performance preforking PSGI/Plack web server
* [Twiggy](https://metacpan.org/pod/Twiggy) - Event-driven PSGI application server
## Web Frameworks-Like
*Somewhere between templates and full on frameworks*
* [Embperl](https://metacpan.org/pod/Embperl) - Building dynamic Websites with Perl (sort of like Perl crossed with PHP)
* [Mason](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mason) - Powerful, high-performance templating for the web and beyond
## Web Scraping
*Libraries for extracting some information from websites*
* [Web::Scraper](https://metacpan.org/pod/Web::Scraper)
* [WWW::Mechanize](https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize)
* [WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS](https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS) - automate the PhantomJS browser
* [WWW::Scripter](https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/WWW-Scripter/lib/WWW/Scripter.pod) - For scripting web sites that have scripts
* [WWW::Selenium](https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Selenium)
## Network Security
*Some great libraries for starting the world of Network security with Perl*
* [Net::Pcap](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Pcap) - Interface to the pcap LBL packet capture library
* [Net::Ncap](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Ncap) - Perl binding to the ncap network data capture library
* [Net::Frame](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Frame) - Perl framework for frame crafting
* [NetPacket](https://metacpan.org/pod/NetPacket) - assemble/disassemble network packets at the protocol level
* [Net::Write](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Write) - portable interface to open and send raw data to network
* [Net::Analysis](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Analysis) - Perl library for analysing network traffic
* [Net::Silk](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Silk) - Perl's Interface to the SiLK network flow library
* [Net::Inspect](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Inspect) - Perl library for inspection of data on various network layers
* [Net::Tshark](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Tshark) - Perl interface for Tshark network capture utility
* [Net::Sharktools](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Sharktools) - Wireshark's packet inspection capabilities in Perl
* [File::PCAP](https://metacpan.org/pod/File::PCAP) - Read, Write and manipulate PCAP file format through Perl
* [Net::P0f](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::P0f) - Perl interface to p0f utility, usefull for finger-printing os
* [Net::Pcap::Reassemble](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Pcap::Reassemble) - Perl IP fragment reassembly for Net::Pcap
* [Nagios::NRPE](https://metacpan.org/pod/Nagios::NRPE) - Pure perl Nagios NRPE implementation
* [Monitoring::Plugin](https://metacpan.org/pod/Monitoring::Plugin) - A family of perl modules to streamline writing Naemon, Nagios, Icinga or Shinken (and compatible) plugins
* [Net::Connection::Sniffer](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Connection::Sniffer) - practical Perl library for MiTM connections
* [Net::ARP](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::ARP) - Library for crafting ARP packets
* [SNMPMonitor](https://metacpan.org/pod/SNMPMonitor) - Perl extension for writing SNMP Monitors
* [Net::LibNIDS](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::LibNIDS) - Perl interface for the Network Intrusion Detection System library
* [Parse::Snort](https://metacpan.org/pod/Parse::Snort) - Perl Snort rules parser
* [Net::Wireless::802_11::WPA::CLI](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Wireless::802_11::WPA::CLI) - Perl WPA_CLI interface
* [IO::Socket::SSL::Intercept](https://metacpan.org/IO::Socket::SSL::Intercept) - library for intercepting SSL connections through Perl
## Metadata Forensics
*General Metadata files parser, usefull during forensics investigations*
* [Image::ExifTool](https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Image-ExifTool/exiftool) - General metadata parser and viewer framework
## Reverse Engineering
*Libraries used for disassembly assembly operations, ELF files and bytecode*
* [Disassembly](https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/B-C/script/disassemble) - Decompiles binary bytecode to readable and recompilable bytecode assembler
* [Python::Bytecode](https://metacpan.org/pod/Python::Bytecode) - Parse Python bytecode
* [B::Bytecode](https://metacpan.org/pod/B::Bytecode) - Compiles a Perl script into a bytecode format that could be loaded later
* [Perf::ARM](https://metacpan.org/pod/Perf::ARM) - Use ARM instructions in Perl
* [Asm::Z80::Table](https://metacpan.org/pod/Asm::Z80::Table) - assemble / disassemble all Z80 CPU assembly instructions with Perl
* [X86::Disasm](https://metacpan.org/pod/X86::Disasm) - Disassemble Intel x86 instructions with Perl
* [Disassemble::X86](https://metacpan.org/pod/Disassemble::X86) - Another library for disassembe X86 instructions
* [X86::Udis86](https://metacpan.org/pod/X86::Udis86) - Interface for the C Udis disassembler
* [Asm::X86](https://metacpan.org/pod/Asm::X86) - List of instructions and registers of x86-compatible processors, validating and converting instructions and memory references
* [ELF::Writer](https://metacpan.org/pod/ELF::Writer) - write and read executable ELF files
Create perl-resources.md # Perl Resources The following are a few resources for individuals trying to learn Perl. ## Tutorials: * [TutorialPoint Perl Tutorial](https://www.tutorialspoint.com/perl/index.htm) * [PerTutorial.org](https://www.perltutorial.org/) * [PerlMaven Tutorial](https://perlmaven.com/perl-tutorial) ## Libraries for developing CLI applications * [App::Cmd](https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Cmd) - Write command line apps with less suffering. * [Getopt::Long](https://metacpan.org/pod/Getopt::Long) - Extended processing of command line options. ## Cloud * [AWS::CloudFront](https://metacpan.org/pod/AWS::CloudFront) - Lightweight interface to Amazon CloudFront CDN * [AWS::S3](https://metacpan.org/pod/AWS::S3) - Lightweight interface to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) * [Net::Amazon::EC2](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Amazon::EC2) - Interface to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment. * [Net::AWS::SES](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::AWS::SES) - Perl extension that implements Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) client * [WebService::DigitalOcean](https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::DigitalOcean) - Access the DigitalOcean RESTful API (v2) * [WebService::Dropbox](https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::Dropbox) - Interface to Dropbox API ## Cryptography * [Bitcoin::Crypto](https://metacpan.org/pod/Bitcoin::Crypto) - Bitcoin cryptography in Perl * [CryptX](https://metacpan.org/pod/CryptX) - Cryptographic toolkit ## Commercial WebServices * [Net::Xero](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Xero) - Interface to Xero accounting * [PagerDuty::Agent](https://metacpan.org/pod/PagerDuty::Agent) - A perl PagerDuty client * [WebService::Spotify](https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::Spotify) - A simple interface to the Spotify Web API * [WebService::Xero](https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::Xero) - Access Xero Accounting Package Public and Private Application API * [WWW::Shopify](https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Shopify) - object representing acess to a particular Shopify store * [WWW::Spotify](https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Spotify) - Spotify Web API Wrapper ## Container *Libraries for Singleton Pattern implementation.* * [Object::Container](https://metacpan.org/pod/Object::Container) ## Data Format *Libraries for serializing, formatting and parsing* * [BSON](https://metacpan.org/pod/BSON) - Binary JSON format * [CBOR::Free](https://metacpan.org/pod/CBOR::Free) - Support for (CBOR)[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049], IETF’s “binary JSON” * [Data::Dumper::Simple](https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Dumper::Simple) - Reduce and faster Data::Dumper and eval() equivalent * [Data::MessagePack](https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::MessagePack) * [JSON::PP](https://metacpan.org/pod/JSON::PP) * [JSON::XS](https://metacpan.org/pod/JSON::XS) * [Sereal](https://metacpan.org/pod/Sereal) * [Storable](https://metacpan.org/pod/Storable) * [Text::CSV](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::CSV) * [Text::CSV_XS](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::CSV_XS) * [Text::Markdown](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Markdown) * [TOML](https://metacpan.org/pod/TOML) * [XML::LibXML](https://metacpan.org/pod/XML::LibXML) * [XML::Compile::Schema](https://metacpan.org/pod/XML::Compile::Schema) - Interpret schema elements and types: create processors for XML messages. * [XML::Compile::SOAP](https://metacpan.org/pod/XML::Compile::SOAP) - Implements the SOAP 1.1 protocol, client side. * [XML::Compile::WSDL](https://metacpan.org/pod/XML::Compile::WSDL) - Use SOAP with a WSDL version 1.1 communication specification file. * [YAML](https://metacpan.org/pod/YAML) ## Database *Libraries for dealing with relational databases* * [DBI](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBI) * [DBIx::Connector](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Connector) - Fast, safe DBI connection and transaction management * [DBIx::Handler](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Handler) - Fork-safe DBI handler * [DBIx::Inspector](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Inspector) * [DBIx::QueryLog](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::QueryLog) * [DBIx::Sunny](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Sunny) - Useful DBI Wrapper * [DBIx::TransactionManager](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::TransactionManager) ## Database Drivers *Libraries for using specific database products* ### Relational Databases * [DBD::CSV](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::CSV) * [DBD::Firebird](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::Firebird) * [DBD::mysql](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::mysql) * [DBD::ODBC](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::ODBC) - Any ODBC Driver. MS-SQL w/ placeholders * [DBD::Oracle](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::Oracle) - Oracle database driver for the DBI module * [DBD::Pg](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::Pg) - PostgreSQL driver for DBI. * [DBD::SQLite](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::SQLite) * [DBD::Sybase](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::Sybase) - Sybase and MS-SQL. No placeholders w/ MS-SQL though ### NoSQL Databases * [Cache::Memcached::Fast](https://metacpan.org/pod/Cache::Memcached::Fast) * [Mango](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mango) - Pure-Perl non-blocking I/O MongoDB driver * [Redis](https://metacpan.org/pod/Redis) * [Redis::Fast](https://metacpan.org/pod/Redis::Fast) - Perl wrapper around hiredis driver * [Search::Elasticsearch](https://metacpan.org/pod/Search::Elasticsearch) - Offical Elasticsearch client library * [UnQLite](https://metacpan.org/pod/UnQLite) ## Date & Time *Libraries for working with dates and times* * [DateTime](https://metacpan.org/pod/DateTime) * [Time::Moment](https://metacpan.org/pod/Time::Moment) * [Time::Piece](https://metacpan.org/pod/Time::Piece) ## Devices *Libraries to talk to physical devices* * [Device::SerialPort](https://metacpan.org/pod/Device::SerialPort) - Generic Serial Port library for serial line communication * [Device::Modem](https://metacpan.org/pod/Device::Modem) - Talk to modem devices conneted via serial port * [Device::Onkyo](https://metacpan.org/pod/Device::Onkyo) - Control Onkyo/Integra AV equipment via LAN or Serial * [Chipcard::PCSC::Card](https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/pcsc-perl/Card/Card.pod) - Control Smart card using perl and PCSC * [Device::XBee::API](https://metacpan.org/pod/Device::XBee::API) - Control XBee Device using pure perl code * [Device::Firmata](https://metacpan.org/pod/Device::Firmata) - module for controlling Firmata devices like Arduino ## DevOps Tools *Libraries that help when you want to deploy software across networks on several hosts/are working across computer networks* * [Rex](https://metacpan.org/pod/Rex) - Remote Execution ## Email *Libraries that implement email creation and sending* * [Email::Sender](https://metacpan.org/pod/Email::Sender) * [Email::Reply](https://metacpan.org/pod/Email::Reply) * [Email::Stuffer](https://metacpan.org/pod/Email::Stuffer) ## Event Loops *Libraries for various event loops. Asynchronous programming if you like* * [AE](https://metacpan.org/pod/AE) - Simpler, faster, newer AnyEvent API * [AnyEvent](https://metacpan.org/pod/AnyEvent) - the DBI of event loop programming * [EV](https://metacpan.org/pod/EV) - Uses libev, very fast and popular. Default for AnyEvent if present * [Event](https://metacpan.org/pod/Event) - Works well, but older * [IO::Async](https://metacpan.org/pod/IO::Async) - Asynchronous event-driven programming * [POE](https://metacpan.org/pod/POE) - Common interface for several event loops * [Promise::XS](https://metacpan.org/pod/Promise::XS) - Promises in Perl ## Exception Handling *Libraries that assist with and/or provide alternatives to eval{ die() }* * [autodie](https://metacpan.org/pod/autodie) - Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope * [Exception::Class](https://metacpan.org/pod/Exception::Class) - A module that allows you to declare real exception classes in Perl * [Syntax::Keyword::Try](https://metacpan.org/pod/Syntax::Keyword::Try) - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl * [Throwable](https://metacpan.org/pod/Throwable) - a role for classes that can be thrown * [Try::Tiny](https://metacpan.org/pod/Try::Tiny) - minimal try/catch with proper preservation of $@ * [TryCatch](https://metacpan.org/pod/TryCatch) - first class try catch semantics for Perl, without source filters ## DOM Manipulation * [HTML5::DOM](https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML5::DOM) - Super fast html5 DOM library with css selectors (based on Modest/MyHTML). ## File Manipulation * [File::Util](https://metacpan.org/pod/File::Util) - Easy, versatile, portable file handling. * [Path::Tiny](https://metacpan.org/pod/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](https://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu) - Use HTML::FormFu in Catalyst. * [CGI::FormBuilder](https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI::FormBuilder) - Easily generate and process stateful forms. * [Form::Sensible](https://metacpan.org/pod/Form::Sensible) - A sensible way to handle form based user interface. * [Form::Tiny](https://metacpan.org/pod/Form::Tiny) - Forms reusing Type::Tiny type constraints. * [Form::Toolkit](https://metacpan.org/pod/Form::Toolkit) - A toolkit to build Data centric Forms. * [HTML::FormFu](https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::FormFu) - HTML Form Creation, Rendering and Validation Framework. * [HTML::FormFu::ExtJS](https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::FormFu::ExtJS) - ExtJS form generation from HTML::FormFu config files. * [HTML::FormHandler](https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::FormHandler) - HTML forms using Moose. * [Mojolicious::Plugin::FormFields](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::FormFields) - Lightweight, flexible form builder with validation and filtering. * [WWW::Form](https://metacpan.org/pod/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](https://metacpan.org/pod/Image::Magick) - An object-oriented interface to ImageMagick's image composing libraries. * [Imager](https://metacpan.org/pod/Imager) * [GD](https://metacpan.org/pod/GD) - Interface to Gd Graphics Library * [Image::Info](https://metacpan.org/pod/Image::Info) - Get image informations * [Image::PNG::Libpng](https://metacpan.org/pod/release/BKB/Image-PNG-Libpng-0.52_03/lib/Image/PNG/Libpng.pm) - Perl interface for libpng * [Graphics::TIFF](https://metacpan.org/pod/Graphics::TIFF) - Perl wrapper for libtiff * [Image::BMP](https://metacpan.org/pod/Image::BMP) - Perl bitmap image parser and viewer ## List Manipulation *Libraries for manipulation lists (arrays)* * [Array::Unique](https://metacpan.org/pod/Array::Unique) - Tie-able array that allows only unique values * [List::AllUtils](https://metacpan.org/pod/List::AllUtils) - Combines List::Util, List::SomeUtils and List::UtilsBy in one bite-sized package * [List::Compare](https://metacpan.org/pod/List::Compare) - Compare elements of two or more lists * [List::Gen](https://metacpan.org/pod/List::Gen) - Provides functions for generating lists * [List::MoreUtils](https://metacpan.org/pod/List::MoreUtils) - Provide the stuff missing in List::Util * [List::SomeUtils](https://metacpan.org/pod/List::SomeUtils) - Provide the stuff missing in List::Util * [List::Util](https://metacpan.org/pod/List::Util) - A selection of general-utility list subroutines * [List::UtilsBy](https://metacpan.org/pod/List::UtilsBy) - higher-order list utility functions ## Logging *Libraries for generating and working with log files* * [Log::Dispatch](https://metacpan.org/pod/Log::Dispatch) * [Log::Log4perl](https://metacpan.org/pod/Log::Log4perl) * [Log::Minimal](https://metacpan.org/pod/Log::Minimal) ## Module Development *Libraries that simplify and improve Perl module development* * [Dist::Zilla](https://metacpan.org/pod/Dist::Zilla) - <http://dzil.org/> * [Minilla](https://metacpan.org/pod/Minilla) - CPAN module authoring tool ## Network *Libraries that help when you are dealing with computer networks* * [DOCSIS::ConfigFile](https://metacpan.org/pod/DOCSIS::ConfigFile) - Decodes and encodes DOCSIS config files * [NetAddr::MAC](https://metacpan.org/pod/NetAddr::MAC) - Handle MAC addresses *Libraries that help when you are working across computer networks* * [Net::SSH::Perl](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::SSH::Perl) - SSH client implemented in Perl. * [Net::SSH2](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::SSH2) - Wrapper for [libssh2](https://libssh2.org/). * [Net::OpenSSH](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::OpenSSH) - Run commands remotely using the [OpenSSH](http://www.openssh.com/) client. * [Net::OpenSSH::Parallel](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::OpenSSH::Parallel) - Run remote commands in parallel using the OpenSSH client. * [Net::SSH::Any](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::SSH::Any) - Run remote commands using any module or binary client available. * [Net::SFTP::Foreign](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::SFTP::Foreign) - SFTP client for remote file access. * [Object::Remote](https://metacpan.org/pod/Object::Remote) - Run Perl code on remote machines. * [Net::CLI::Interact](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::CLI::Interact) - Automates interactive programs. * [Net::Appliance::Session](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Appliance::Session) - Automates interaction with appliances. ## ORM *Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques* * [DBIx::Class](https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Class) * [Rose::DB](https://metacpan.org/pod/Rose::DB) * [Teng](https://metacpan.org/pod/Teng) ## Package Management *Libraries for package and dependency management* * [App::cpanminus](https://metacpan.org/pod/App::cpanminus) * [Carton](https://metacpan.org/pod/Carton) * [Pinto](https://metacpan.org/pod/Pinto) - Powerful local CPAN repos ## Processes and Threads *Libraries for managing processes and threads* * [Parallel::ForkManager](https://metacpan.org/pod/Parallel::ForkManager) - A simple parallel processing fork manager * [Parallel::Prefork](https://metacpan.org/pod/Parallel::Prefork) - A simple prefork server framework * [Proclet](https://metacpan.org/pod/Proclet) - Minimalistic supervisor, a Perl port of [foreman](https://github.com/ddollar/foreman) ## Profiling *Libraries for examining run-time activity of your program* * [Devel::KYTProf](https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::KYTProf) - Very light profiler for I/Os such as HTTP request-responses and SQL queries. * [Devel::NYTProf](https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::NYTProf) - Code profiler. ## Protocol *Protocol clients and libraries* * [Furl](https://metacpan.org/pod/Furl) - Faster HTTP(S) Client * [HTTP::Tiny](https://metacpan.org/pod/HTTP::Tiny) - Minimal and fast client. Included in the standard packages. * [LWP::UserAgent](https://metacpan.org/pod/LWP::UserAgent) - Popular HTTP(S) Client * [Net::Curl](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Curl) - (libcurl)[https://curl.se/libcurl/] integration * [Net::DHCP](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::DHCP) - Send and receive DHCP packets * [Net::DNS](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::DNS) - Resolve DNS host names * [Protocol::DBus](https://metacpan.org/pod/Protocol::DBus) - D-Bus in (pure) Perl ## Queueing *Message Queue, Job Queue System..* * [Gearman](https://metacpan.org/pod/Gearman) * [Minion](https://docs.mojolicious.org/Minion) - Pure-Perl job queue * [Net::RabbitMQ](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::RabbitMQ) * [Net::Stomp](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Stomp) * [Qudo](https://metacpan.org/pod/Qudo) * [Resque](https://metacpan.org/pod/Resque) * [TheSchwartz](https://metacpan.org/pod/TheSchwartz) ## Science/Numerics *Hand-picked modules for research, science, numerics and hyper-computing* * [BioPerl](https://metacpan.org/pod/BioPerl) * [Chart::Clicker](https://metacpan.org/pod/Chart::Clicker) - Powerful, extensible charting * [PDL](http://pdl.perl.org/) * [PDL (CPAN)](https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL) * [PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot](https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot) * [PDL::IO::*](https://metacpan.org/search?q=PDL%3A%3AIO&size=20) * [PDL::LinearAlgebra](https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::LinearAlgebra) * [PDL::Stats](https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::Stats) * [Physics::*](https://metacpan.org/search?q=physics%3A%3A&size=20) ## Stream Manipulation *Libraries for manipulating event streams* * [RxPerl](https://metacpan.org/pod/RxPerl) - Perl implementation of [Reactive Extensions](http://reactivex.io) / rxjs ## REST Frameworks *Libraries for developing REST applications* * [Catalyst::Action::REST](https://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst::Action::REST) - Automated REST Method Dispatching * [Dancer2::Plugin::REST](https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2::Plugin::REST) - A plugin for writing RESTful apps with Dancer2 * [Dancer::Plugin::REST](https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer::Plugin::REST) - A plugin for writing RESTful apps with Dancer * [Raisin](https://metacpan.org/pod/Raisin) - a REST API micro framework for Perl * [Squatting](https://metacpan.org/pod/Squatting) - A Camping-inspired Web Microframework for Perl ## Template Engines *Libraries and tools for templating* * [HTML::Template](https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::Template) - Templates for web pages * [Template::Alloy](https://metacpan.org/pod/Template::Alloy) - TT2/3, HT, HTE, Tmpl, and Velocity Engine * [Template::Toolkit](https://metacpan.org/pod/Template::Toolkit) - Very Popular Template Processing System * [Text::MicroTemplate](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::MicroTemplate) - Fast, simple and safe template engine written in pure-Perl and core modules. * [Text::MicroTemplate::Extended](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::MicroTemplate::Extended) - Extended Text::MicroTemplate. * [Text::Template](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Template) - Templates with embedded perl * [Text::Xslate](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Xslate) - Faster template engine with XS. Supports multiple syntaxes. * [Tiffany](https://metacpan.org/pod/Tiffany) - Generic interface for template engines. It makes it easy to use multiple template engines. * [Template::Magic](https://metacpan.org/pod/Template::Magic) - Magic merger of runtime values with templates. ## Testing *Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.* ### Testing Frameworks * [Test::Base](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Base) - A Data Driven Testing Framework * [Test::Base::Less](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Base::Less) - Limited version of Test::Base * [Test::BDD::Cucumber](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::BDD::Cucumber) - Implementation of the popular Cucumber framework in Perl * [Test::Class](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Class) - Class-based testing. Support "setup" and "teardown". * [Test::Deep](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Deep) - Test deep and complex data structures with great flexibility. * [Test::Deep::Matcher](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Deep::Matcher) * [Test::Harness](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Harness) - Run Perl standard test scripts with statistics * [Test::Kantan](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Kantan) - simple, flexible, fun "Testing framework" * [Test::More](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::More) ### Test Double * [Test::Exception](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Exception) * [Test::Fatal](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Fatal) - Simple module for verifying exceptions. * [Test::Mock::Guard](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Mock::Guard) - Mocking package subroutines. * [Test::MockTime](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::MockTime) * [Test::mysqld](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::mysqld) * [Test::TCP](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::TCP) - Launch temporary TCP Server * [Test::Time](https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Time) - Simple module for faking system time. ### Coverage * [Devel::Cover](https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::Cover) * [Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls](https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls) Report to Coveralls ## Tools *Some useful tools* * [App::Ack](https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Ack) - ack is a tool like grep, optimized for programmers. * [App::Nopaste](https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Nopaste) - Post to various pastebins from the CLI * [Daiku](https://metacpan.org/pod/Daiku) - Make for Perl. * [Data::Printer](https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Printer) - Colored pretty-print of Perl data structures and objects. * [Reply](https://metacpan.org/pod/Reply) - Read-eval-print-loop(REPL) command-line tool. * [Riji](https://metacpan.org/pod/Riji) - Static site generator using markdown and git mainly for blogging. * [Smart::Comments](https://metacpan.org/pod/Smart::Comments) - Comments that do more than just sit there. *Libraries for developping command line applications* * [Toolbox::Simple](https://metacpan.org/pod/Toolbox::Simple) - Simplfy some common tasks in Perl. * [Script::Toolbox](https://metacpan.org/pod/Script::Toolbox) - Framework for the daily business scripts. * [Devel::Kit](https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::Kit)- Handy toolbox of things to ease development/debugging. *Libraries for handling configuration files* * [Config::Tiny](https://metacpan.org/pod/Config::Tiny) - Read/Write .ini style files with as little code as possible ## Type checking * [MooseX::Types](https://metacpan.org/pod/MooseX::Types) - Moose types management tool * [Type::Tiny](https://metacpan.org/pod/Type::Tiny) - Tiny, yet comprehensive type library ## Video * [FFmpeg](https://metacpan.org/pod/FFmpeg) - Interface to FFmpeg, a video converter written in C * [Video::Info](https://metacpan.org/pod/Video::Info) - Retrieve video properties such as: height width codec fps * [Vlc::Engine](https://metacpan.org/pod/Vlc::Engine) - use Vlc media player with Perl * [VideoLAN::LibVLC](https://metacpan.org/pod/VideoLAN::LibVLC) - Perl bindings for libvlc.so * [Video::Generator](https://metacpan.org/pod/Video::Generator) - Perl class for video generation ## Web Frameworks *Libraries for developing Web applications* * [Amon2](https://metacpan.org/pod/Amon2) * [Catalyst](https://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst) - Overflowing with features. Very popular. * [Dancer](https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer) ([Official site](http://perldancer.org/)) * [Dancer2](https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2) * [Gantry](https://metacpan.org/pod/Gantry) - Web application framework for mod\_perl, cgi, etc. * [Kelp](https://metacpan.org/pod/Kelp) - Plack-focused Perl web framework * [Kossy](https://metacpan.org/pod/Kossy) - A Web framework with simple interface. * [Mojolicious](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious) - An all in one framework. * [Poet](https://metacpan.org/pod/Poet) - a modern Perl web framework for Mason developers ### Middlewares *Libraries for creating HTTP middlewares* * [Gazelle](https://metacpan.org/pod/Gazelle) - Preforked Plack Handler for performance freaks * [Plack](https://metacpan.org/pod/Plack) - PSGI server implementation and utilities for Web applications. * [Server::Starter](https://metacpan.org/pod/Server::Starter) - Process manager with the "graceful restart" feature. * [Starlet](https://metacpan.org/pod/Starlet) - High-performance PSGI Server * [Starman](https://metacpan.org/pod/Starman) - High-performance preforking PSGI/Plack web server * [Twiggy](https://metacpan.org/pod/Twiggy) - Event-driven PSGI application server ## Web Frameworks-Like *Somewhere between templates and full on frameworks* * [Embperl](https://metacpan.org/pod/Embperl) - Building dynamic Websites with Perl (sort of like Perl crossed with PHP) * [Mason](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mason) - Powerful, high-performance templating for the web and beyond ## Web Scraping *Libraries for extracting some information from websites* * [Web::Scraper](https://metacpan.org/pod/Web::Scraper) * [WWW::Mechanize](https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize) * [WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS](https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS) - automate the PhantomJS browser * [WWW::Scripter](https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/WWW-Scripter/lib/WWW/Scripter.pod) - For scripting web sites that have scripts * [WWW::Selenium](https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Selenium) ## Network Security *Some great libraries for starting the world of Network security with Perl* * [Net::Pcap](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Pcap) - Interface to the pcap LBL packet capture library * [Net::Ncap](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Ncap) - Perl binding to the ncap network data capture library * [Net::Frame](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Frame) - Perl framework for frame crafting * [NetPacket](https://metacpan.org/pod/NetPacket) - assemble/disassemble network packets at the protocol level * [Net::Write](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Write) - portable interface to open and send raw data to network * [Net::Analysis](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Analysis) - Perl library for analysing network traffic * [Net::Silk](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Silk) - Perl's Interface to the SiLK network flow library * [Net::Inspect](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Inspect) - Perl library for inspection of data on various network layers * [Net::Tshark](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Tshark) - Perl interface for Tshark network capture utility * [Net::Sharktools](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Sharktools) - Wireshark's packet inspection capabilities in Perl * [File::PCAP](https://metacpan.org/pod/File::PCAP) - Read, Write and manipulate PCAP file format through Perl * [Net::P0f](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::P0f) - Perl interface to p0f utility, usefull for finger-printing os * [Net::Pcap::Reassemble](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Pcap::Reassemble) - Perl IP fragment reassembly for Net::Pcap * [Nagios::NRPE](https://metacpan.org/pod/Nagios::NRPE) - Pure perl Nagios NRPE implementation * [Monitoring::Plugin](https://metacpan.org/pod/Monitoring::Plugin) - A family of perl modules to streamline writing Naemon, Nagios, Icinga or Shinken (and compatible) plugins * [Net::Connection::Sniffer](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Connection::Sniffer) - practical Perl library for MiTM connections * [Net::ARP](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::ARP) - Library for crafting ARP packets * [SNMPMonitor](https://metacpan.org/pod/SNMPMonitor) - Perl extension for writing SNMP Monitors * [Net::LibNIDS](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::LibNIDS) - Perl interface for the Network Intrusion Detection System library * [Parse::Snort](https://metacpan.org/pod/Parse::Snort) - Perl Snort rules parser * [Net::Wireless::802_11::WPA::CLI](https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Wireless::802_11::WPA::CLI) - Perl WPA_CLI interface * [IO::Socket::SSL::Intercept](https://metacpan.org/IO::Socket::SSL::Intercept) - library for intercepting SSL connections through Perl ## Metadata Forensics *General Metadata files parser, usefull during forensics investigations* * [Image::ExifTool](https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Image-ExifTool/exiftool) - General metadata parser and viewer framework ## Reverse Engineering *Libraries used for disassembly assembly operations, ELF files and bytecode* * [Disassembly](https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/B-C/script/disassemble) - Decompiles binary bytecode to readable and recompilable bytecode assembler * [Python::Bytecode](https://metacpan.org/pod/Python::Bytecode) - Parse Python bytecode * [B::Bytecode](https://metacpan.org/pod/B::Bytecode) - Compiles a Perl script into a bytecode format that could be loaded later * [Perf::ARM](https://metacpan.org/pod/Perf::ARM) - Use ARM instructions in Perl * [Asm::Z80::Table](https://metacpan.org/pod/Asm::Z80::Table) - assemble / disassemble all Z80 CPU assembly instructions with Perl * [X86::Disasm](https://metacpan.org/pod/X86::Disasm) - Disassemble Intel x86 instructions with Perl * [Disassemble::X86](https://metacpan.org/pod/Disassemble::X86) - Another library for disassembe X86 instructions * [X86::Udis86](https://metacpan.org/pod/X86::Udis86) - Interface for the C Udis disassembler * [Asm::X86](https://metacpan.org/pod/Asm::X86) - List of instructions and registers of x86-compatible processors, validating and converting instructions and memory references * [ELF::Writer](https://metacpan.org/pod/ELF::Writer) - write and read executable ELF files
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