Awesome Perl

URL: https://github.com/hachiojipm/awesome-perl#readme
Category: Themed Directories
Tags: awesome-lists, perl, developer-tools

Overview

Awesome Perl is a curated, community-maintained list of notable Perl resources, including frameworks, libraries, tools, and software. It is part of the broader "awesome" list ecosystem and is inspired by the awesome-go project.

Features

• Curated resource list

  • Focuses on high-quality, notable Perl modules, tools, and related software.
  • Organized to help developers quickly discover libraries suited to common tasks.

• Category-based organization

  • Args – Libraries for argument handling, manifestation, and validation.
  • Audio / DSP – Audio-related libraries, including digital signal processing.
  • Benchmarks – Libraries for benchmarking and performance measurement.
  • Caches – Libraries for interacting with cache software.
  • Class Builder – Libraries supporting class creation and metaprogramming (e.g., concise class syntax, attributes, and methods).
  • CLI – Libraries for building command-line applications.
  • Cloud – Modules for interacting with cloud services (category placeholder for cloud-related tools).
  • Cryptography – Cryptographic utilities and primitives.
  • Commercial WebServices – Clients and helpers for commercial web APIs.
  • Container – Libraries for implementing the Singleton pattern and similar container abstractions.
  • Data Format – Libraries for serializing, formatting, and parsing data.
  • Database – General-purpose libraries for working with relational databases.
  • Database Drivers – Drivers for specific database products, including:
    • Relational databases
    • NoSQL databases
  • Date & Time – Libraries for date/time representation, parsing, and manipulation.
  • Devices – Libraries for communicating with physical devices.
  • DevOps Tools – Tools and libraries for deployment and working across networks/hosts.
  • Email – Libraries for composing and sending email messages.
  • Event Loops – Event loop implementations and async programming utilities.
  • Exception Handling – Alternatives and helpers beyond basic eval { die } style error handling.
  • DOM Manipulation – Libraries for working with and manipulating DOM structures.
  • File Manipulation – Tools for interacting with and transforming files.
  • Form Frameworks – Frameworks to simplify creation and processing of (web/UI) forms.
  • Images – Libraries for image manipulation.
  • List Manipulation – Utilities for operating on lists/arrays.
  • Logging – Libraries for structured logging and log management (category present; list partially shown in content).

• Supplementary lists

  • References to other recommended Perl module lists under “Another module list,” providing alternative or additional curated resources.

• Repository structure and tooling

  • README.md – Main list of resources and category descriptions.
  • CONTRIBUTING.md – Contribution guidelines for adding or updating entries.
  • LICENSE – Specifies licensing for the curated list content.
  • .travis.yml – Continuous integration configuration for basic checks.
  • cpanfile – Declares Perl dependencies used for testing/validation of the list.
  • t/ – Test files supporting automated validation of the list’s structure or metadata.

• Community-driven curation

  • Open to pull requests for new entries and improvements.
  • Maintained as a GitHub repository, leveraging standard GitHub workflows.

Pricing

Not applicable. Awesome Perl is an open, public GitHub repository and curated list, accessible free of charge.