Perl and Web Development

Question

Can anyone recommend a good book to use for building a website using Perl? Specifically, Im looking to build a backend to a mobile app. Everything Ive been trying to search for seems dated (2005 and earlier).

Answer 1

I dont know a book but perl dancer its pretty easy and you can find lots of documentation or catalyst
http://www.perldancer.org/documentation

Answer 2

I'll second Catalyst. Start simple, and it's pretty easy to learn.
http://www.catalystframework.org/
ON the same site you will find information about the book "The Definitive Guide to Catalyst" but there are other Catalyst books you can find with Google. And you can find a lot of documentation about Catalyst in POD format on CPAN and on the site above. Dancer is great, but it has a big problem. Dancer 1 was replaced by Dancer 2 because Dancer 1 has some limitations and it couldn't be just improved. However Dancer 2 is not ready to be used yet (even though I heard for many times that it is production ready). So you can either use Catalyst, which is the most powerful web framework for Perl, use Dancer 1 with its limitations, try to use Dancer 2 and if something doesn't work contribute and fix it, or if you like its style... use Mojolicious. BTW, if you want something very modern, you may like Mojolicious.