Modern Web Development with Perl and Dancer

Description

It’ll be a hands-on course and over a day we’ll build a complete (and, hopefully) useful little web application using a number of modern web technologies. The back-end will (of course) be Perl (specifically Dancer2) but we’ll also be using Bootstrap, jQuery, Mustache and more.

Course Details

Over the course of twelve steps, we’ll build a simple Todo list program. We’ll be using a number of modern web development techniques (not just Perl) in order to make the app look really shiny and modern.

The twelve steps we will be taking are as follows:

1. Set up a basic Dancer2 app
2. Make it look nicer with the addition of the Bootstrap CSS framework
3. Use Plack Middleware to serve static content more efficiently
4. Display some data in our app
5. Get the data from a database
6. Return the data as JSON and display it using Mustache
7. Use jQuery to show/hide completed items
8. Mark items as completed
9. Add new tasks to the app
10. Add user login
11. Edit and delete tasks
12. Add tags to tasks and filter the display on those tags

If there’s time left at the end, we’ll discuss other useful enhancements that we might want to make to the app – and perhaps even try adding them.

We’ll be using the following Perl tools:

• Dancer2
• PSGI/Plack
• DBIx::Class
• Moose
• DateTime

And the following non-Perl tools:

• Bootstrap
• jQuery
• Mustache

Usually, a course like this would cost around £300. But because it’s at YAPC and the sponsors are so generous, we can offer it for the heavily discounted price of 100€.

Cluj Hub sounds like a fabulous venue for the training courses and I’m sure that the day will be a lot of fun. Perhaps more importantly, I’m also sure that attendees will come away with some useful skills to add to their CVs.

Note: Dave will alsow publish updates on PerlHacks

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